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Entergy Celebrates Earth Day, Encourages 'Green' Action

Posted on: Wednesday, 22 April 2009, 09:30 CDT

New Web site provides customers with resources to help reduce carbon footprint

NEW ORLEANS, April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Helping the environment just got a little easier thanks to a new user-friendly Web site Entergy introduced today as the company celebrates Earth Day 2009.

Entergy's Earth Day Web site (www.entergy.com/earthday) is part of a larger effort to encourage its employees, customers and others to conduct their personal lives in such a way that Earth's environment is preserved for future generations. The site, which conveys the theme that every day is Earth Day, offers a home energy calculator, a personal "green" planner and energy-efficiency games for children.

"As responsible, caring citizens we should all work to become more environmentally conscious so that our children's children can breathe easy in a sustainable future," said J. Wayne Leonard, Entergy's chairman and chief executive officer.

The Web site was conceived as a way to share information about Entergy's environmental activities and provide tools to help others explore ways to reduce their carbon footprint. In addition, it provides a platform for visitors to share their own Earth Day activities by posting stories, photographs and videos about what they are doing to help the environment.

From major efforts such as producing clean power using nuclear energy to small solutions like encouraging customers to use energy-efficient lightbulbs, Entergy's intention is to lead and motivate others by example. Entergy's comprehensive environmental strategy includes initiatives to stabilize its carbon dioxide emissions, restore coastal wetlands, promote energy efficiency, improve communities from an environmental perspective and encourage recycling. Entergy is recognized as one of the nation's cleanest power generators and is regularly named to the exclusive Dow Jones Sustainability Index.

Entergy Corporation (NYSE: ETR) is an integrated energy company engaged primarily in electric power production and retail distribution operations. Entergy owns and operates power plants with approximately 30,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, and it is the second-largest nuclear generator in the United States. Entergy delivers electricity to 2.7 million utility customers in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Entergy has annual revenues of more than $13 billion and approximately 14,700 employees.

Entergy's online address is www.entergy.com.

SOURCE Entergy Corporation

Source: PR Newswire

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