In public the EU is talking up the case for reviving climate change agreement hopes in Cancún, but last December Van Rompuy was dismissive and pessimistic, both about the Cancún negotiations and about the very format for the talks.
He said reconsidering rejected pesticide bans, installing advisers who take air pollution science seriously, and reviving climate change regulations akin to the Clean Power Plan that Pruitt proposed repealing would be critical first steps.
HuffPost's Alexander C. Kaufman reports: "Democratic leaders on Thursday tapped Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla). to head a revived U.S. House panel on climate change … Castor's appointment came as a surprise to proponents of a Green New Deal.
A rendering of a revived New Orleans waterfront.
But Pelosi summarily folded that committee into a revived Climate Crisis Select Committee, which can't write legislation and whose members aren't banned from raising fossil fuel money.
Tourists are discovering a revived city too.
Or, at least, a revived one.
To provoke Israel into continuing its strikes on Lebanese targets, many Lebanese fear, Syria could encourage either Hezbollah or its other clients to launch attacks across the border after a withdrawal, reviving the climate of violence that spurred the Israel invasion of Lebanon in 1982 and bringing punishing Israeli airstrikes against Lebanese villages and infrastructure.
These myths never seem to stay dead, inevitably being revived by climate contrarians no matter how conclusively and repeatedly they've been debunked".
The president urged Congress to go back to work and try and revive a climate bill that collapsed in the Senate in 2010.
That's when he announced that the governor had declined to revive a climate-change commission convened by his predecessor, Gov. Tim Kaine, which had recommended dozens of ways the commonwealth could cut carbon emissions and adapt to changes that already are occurring, such as rising sea levels.
