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FILE - In this Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2014 file photo, children wearing masks walk home after school in Beijing, China. Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year according to a new report from the World Health Organization published Tuesday, March 25, 2014. The agency said air pollution triggers about 1 in 8 deaths and has now become the single biggest environmental health risk, ahead of other dangers like second-hand smoke. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
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FILE - In this Monday, March 17, 2014 file photo, two joggers wearing protective masks run past a police officer controlling a vehicle on the Concorde square in Paris. Air pollution kills about 7 million people worldwide every year according to a new report from the World Health Organization published Tuesday March 25, 2014. The agency said air pollution triggers about 1 in 8 deaths and has now become the single biggest environmental health risk, ahead of other dangers like second-hand smoke. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere, File)
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Snohomish County Sheriff's Dept. public information officer Shari Ireton speaks briefly to media members about a deadly mudslide that happened two days earlier, Monday, March 24, 2014, in Arlington, Wash. A map of the slide area is behind her. Officials said that there are currently 108 names of people who have been reported missing or are unaccounted for from the Saturday morning slide, but cautioned the figure would likely decline dramatically. Eight people are so far confirmed dead from the one-square mile slide that destroyed about 30 homes and critically injured several people. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
