May 17, 2006—Entergy Corporation, an electric company based in New Orleans, has pledged, for a second time, to make a voluntary commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its operating plants and stabilize those emissions at a level 20 percent below year 2000 from 2006-2010, says the company.
This second commitment is part of Entergy’s long-term reduction target, which was announced in May 2001 and was implemented in partnership with Environmental Defense, a national environmental advocacy group.
Entergy was the first US company to publicly announce such a greenhouse gas emissions target in 2001, according to the company. It partnered with Environmental Defense to develop a program to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from Entergy’s plants in the US that generate electricity through burning fossil fuels.
The first commitment Entergy made from 2000-2005 was met through both internal and external greenhouse gas reduction projects, including 61 internal reduction projects and 13 external projects, which encompassed carbon sequestration on company-owned property and greenhouse gas emission trades. The second commitment will also be a mix of internal and external carbon-reducing projects beneficial to Entergy’s generation plants, as well as to the company’s customer service territory.
Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. For more information, see the company’s Web site.
