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FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, a worker throws his ...

(AP) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:55:44 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2009 file photo, a worker throws his cigarette while smoke on a truck parked in front of a cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Datong, Shanxi province, China. China has revealed its most ambitious measure of what explosive development has done to its environment, saying Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2010. that its first national pollution census has mapped nearly 6 million sources of industrial, residential and agricultural waste. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

A boy walks past smoke rising from an industry on the outskirts ...

(AP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:27:05 GMT

(AP) - A boy walks past smoke rising from an industry on the outskirts Gauhati, India, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came to the aid of a beleaguered UN-affiliated climate change body on Friday saying India has full confidence in the panel despite the numerous errors in its report on global warming. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

A young Kashmiri Muslim protester shouts at police amid tear ...

(AP) — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:42:29 GMT

(AP) - A young Kashmiri Muslim protester shouts at police amid tear gas smoke during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, Feb. 5, 2010. Thousands of soldiers in riot gear patrolled the streets in Indian Kashmir's main city Friday and warned residents to stay home to quell protests over the death of a teenage boy, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

In this photo made Dec. 8, 2009, Marlboro cigarettes are seen ...

(AP) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:27:13 GMT

(AP) - In this photo made Dec. 8, 2009, Marlboro cigarettes are seen on display at Costco in Mountain View, Calif. Altria Group said Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010, that its fourth-quarter profit climbed 7 percent on strong sales of products like chewing tobacco as well as lower costs.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

In this photo made Dec. 8, 2009, Marlboro cigarettes are seen ...

(AP) — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:27:09 GMT

Smoke billows from a factory in Paris, 2006. EU nations decided ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:02:02 GMT

(AFP/File) - Smoke billows from a factory in Paris, 2006. EU nations decided Wednesday to maintain their pledge to make 30 percent cuts in greenhouse gas emissions if other industrialised nations do the same, diplomats said.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)

Rock singer Pete Doherty smokes a cigarette outside the entrance ...

(AP) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:31:47 GMT

(AP) - Rock singer Pete Doherty smokes a cigarette outside the entrance to the magistrate's court in Gloucester, England, Wednesday Jan. 27, 2010, where he escaped with a fine, despite 'stupidly' walking into a court with 13 wraps of heroin in his pocket. The 30-year-old Babyshambles singer was arrested with the drugs before Christmas in the corridor of Gloucester Crown Court, just moments after he had been fined for careless driving.(AP Photo/Ben Birchall-pa) UNITED KINGDOM OUT: NO SALES: NO ARCHIVE

Soldiers release smoke from a M48H/CM-11 tank during an army ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:51:30 GMT

(Reuters) - Soldiers release smoke from a M48H/CM-11 tank during an army exercise in Hsinchu, central Taiwan January 27, 2010. The U.S. and China are currently at odds over an arms sales to Taiwan, according to local media. REUTERS/Nicky Loh (TAIWAN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS)

Smoke billows from chimneys at a power plant near where new ...

(AFP/File) — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:02:29 GMT

(AFP/File) - Smoke billows from chimneys at a power plant near where new apartments and office buildings have sprung up in recent years in east Beijing on January 13. Beijing's mayor warned on Monday of "extremely serious" contradictions between protecting the capital's environment and maintaining rapid economic growth and development.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)

A vendor smokes as he waits for customers at a pork wholesale ...

(Reuters) — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:51:05 GMT

(Reuters) - A vendor smokes as he waits for customers at a pork wholesale market in Changzhi, Shanxi province, January 21, 2010. An acceleration in consumer inflation to 1.9 percent in the 12 months to December from November's 0.6 percent reading is likely to reinforce worries about possible economic overheating on the back of renewed surge in bank lending, potentially prompting stronger tightening measures by authorities. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Smoke billows from a factory in Paris, 2006. France outlined ...

(AFP/File) — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:20:43 GMT

(AFP/File) - Smoke billows from a factory in Paris, 2006. France outlined new efforts to become the first big economy to tax harmful carbon emissions, with government proposals to curb pollution while protecting businesses.(AFP/File/Joel Saget)

A worker smokes as he sits beside steel bars at a steel market ...

(Reuters) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:12:22 GMT

(Reuters) - A worker smokes as he sits beside steel bars at a steel market in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, January 19, 2010. China's steel output in 2010 is expected to rise 4 percent to 590 million tonnes, from 565 million tonnes in 2009, said a senior analyst at UBS on Monday. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

People walk through rubble and smoke from burning bodies in ...

(AP) — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:41:58 GMT

(AP) - People walk through rubble and smoke from burning bodies in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. U.N. peacekeepers patrolling the capital said popular anger is rising and warned authorities and aid organizations to increase security to guard against looting after Tuesday's earthquake. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

FILE - This April 2003 photo provided by Harvard University ...

(AP) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:54:12 GMT

(AP) - FILE - This April 2003 photo provided by Harvard University shows Elena Kagan. Tobacco industry lawyers met secretly with now Solicitor General Elena Kagan in mid-December 2009 in an effort to avoid a last-ditch attempt by the federal government to extract billions of dollars in payments from the companies that illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking, (AP Photo/Harvard University, Kathleen Dooher, FILE)

FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2002 file photo, Miguel Estrada is ...

(AP) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:51:33 GMT

(AP) - FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2002 file photo, Miguel Estrada is seen on Capitol Hill in Washington. As a lawyer representing the tobacco industry, Estrada met secretly in mid-December 2009 with Solicitor General Elena Kagan in an effort to avoid a last-ditch attempt by the federal government to extract billions of dollars in payments from the companies that illegally concealed the dangers of cigarette smoking. (AP Photo/Terry Ashe, File)

Residents use pieces of smoked glass to watch the annular solar ...

(Reuters) — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:26:05 GMT

(Reuters) - Residents use pieces of smoked glass to watch the annular solar eclipse in Suining, Sichuan province January 15, 2010. The longest, ring-like solar eclipse of the millennium started on Friday, with astronomers saying the Maldives was the best place to view the phenomenon that will not happen again for over 1,000 years. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA

Smoke billows from a chimney in front of a row of apartment ...

(Reuters) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:41:56 GMT

(Reuters) - Smoke billows from a chimney in front of a row of apartment building blocks in Taiyuan, Shanxi province January 13, 2010. China renewed its vow to curb runaway property prices and keep a watch on excessive lending, while investors rushed to cut exposure to risk on Wednesday, a day after the central bank tightened bank reserve requirements. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: BUSINESS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA