1.   The European Commission is to spend the largest sum ever allocated to an outside environmental project on protecting tropical rain forest in Central Africa.

2.   The proceeds from the taxes will be used for environmental projects.

3.   It would be administered by the IADB, which has experience in lending for environmental projects in Latin America.

4.   The three governments will fund specific environmental projects in the region.

5.   As part of the agreement, the White House called on USAID to carry out several environmental projects in the region.

6.   But environmental projects are noticeably absent from the larger grants.

7.   But nearly five years after NAFTA was ratified, not a single environmental project financed by the bank is in operation.

8.   But the most ambitious environmental monitoring project ever undertaken, the System for Vigilance of the Amazon, may soon give Brazil sharp eyes in the wilderness.

9.   California, as a party, was promised a big share of the penalties and of the environmental projects that the companies will undertake.

10.   Desert tortoise research is one of six environmental projects overseen by the CIA as part of a pilot program to use intelligence technology for ecological pursuits.