11.  A White House environmental official said that in fact regulations require the secretary of interior to point the finger at polluters.

12.  Activists say the change reflected the intervention of top Grace environmental officials, eager to speed the cleanup process.

13.  After wrapping it in his coat, Shope called state environmental officials and took the hawk to a woman who revives injured birds of prey.

14.  Alarmed state and federal health and environmental officials immediately began investigations.

15.  Aides to Gov. Mario Villanueva secretly negotiated the sale, and federal environmental officials have ignored entreaties to intervene.

16.  All the chemicals, which environmental officials said were safely stored, bore the label of the Nuclear Research Corp., Sturcken said.

17.  Also, after four years of haggling with state environmental officials, Mirant still had not secured the necessary permits and licenses for the Sandwich expansion.

18.  But after nearly a year of talks with environmental officials, the utility backed off, seeing too many potential regulatory headaches.

19.  But county environmental officials said the nest flagged by Jones had been excavated by hand and found to be empty before construction crews were allowed into the area.

20.  But in the European Union, environmental officials are taking the news much more seriously.