China hopes novice environment chief will be breath of fresh air

By David Stanway and Kathy Chen BEIJING (Reuters) – One year after “declaring war” on pollution, China has appointed an inexperienced outsider as its new environment minister tasked with breathing life into a massive clean-up campaign that even optimists say will take decades to complete. Beijing has vowed to reverse the damage done to its skies, rivers and soil during China's three-decade dash …