Entergy Releases 2008 Sustainability Report

Achievements include CO2 emissions nearly 18 percent below cumulative stabilization goal

NEW ORLEANS, June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Entergy (NYSE: ETR) has released its 2008 sustainability report, Meeting the Challenge, which highlights the company’s environmental, social and economic performance for the year.

Entergy’s annual sustainability report takes a close look at how the company raised the bar on employee safety performance, met customer expectations, delivered investor returns, protected the environment and contributed back to the community.

“This latest report illustrates that not only can the company remain competitive and financially successful in the short run, but also it can do right by future stakeholders,” said Chairman and Chief Executive Officer J. Wayne Leonard. “Even in the face of record-setting, back-to-back hurricanes and a global financial crisis, our focus on sustainability never wavered. Without question, it is our culture and our demonstrated record of safely achieving ambitious financial, social and environmental objectives simultaneously that forms the bedrock we build upon every day.”

Highlights from Entergy’s 2008 sustainability report include:

• Cumulative CO2 emissions from 2002-2008 were nearly 18 percent below the company’s cumulative stabilization goal.
• A total of 60 Entergy work sites now have Star status under the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Voluntary Protection Program.
• The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program secured $313 million in federal funding.

Entergy’s 2008 sustainability report, as well as environmental reports from previous years, can be found at entergy.com/our_community/environmental_reports.aspx.

Entergy was named to the exclusive Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for a seventh consecutive year in 2008 and was, again, the only U.S. utility selected for the world index. Entergy was also named to the Climate Disclosure Leadership Index in 2008, the fifth consecutive year to receive this recognition.

Entergy Corporation 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