1.   The report highlights the environmental harm caused by transporting goods around the world.

2.   Most of the incidents caused little or no environmental harm.

3.   Animals and plants can be carried far across the seas in the water a ship carries for stability and then discharged into new surroundings, causing serious environmental harm.

4.   But Frank D. Duval, president of Sterling Mining in Spokane, Wash., said experts had determined that the mine could operate without environmental harm.

5.   Federal prosecutors said Monday that they were unable to prove environmental harm from the hydrazine.

6.   He also worked to prevent environmental harm from dam and water projects and to obtain accords on international whaling.

7.   He said he and others were merely trying to fashion a solution that would minimize environmental harm while saving their oil fields.

8.   In addition, US attorneys with limited resources are careful to concentrate on offenses that result in the most severe environmental harm.

9.   In addition, the plan calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new, streamlined rules for testing the sediments for possible environmental harm.

10.   In fact, properly used, plastic may do less environmental harm than the materials it so often replaces.