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Second, we are aggressively advocating positive actions
on global climate changes at all levels of government and
within our communities. We participate in 10 organizations
advocating equitable regulation of greenhouse gases in all
industries. Other examples include:
■Supporting and encouraging energy conservation by our
customers through online tools, weatherization and other
energy efficiency programs
■Committing resources for environmental stewardship
grants to 30 organizations within our utility region
■Launching a solar schools program in New Orleans in
partnership with Nike, Shell, Environmental Resources
Trust and Global Green
■Using the Environmental Initiatives fund to help create
new and innovative greenhouse gas offset market
mechanisms that cost effectively achieve climate benefits
while also leveraging benefits for the communities we serve
In addition, in August 2006, Entergy was the only utility
in the industry to file an amicus curiae (friend of the court)
brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in Massachusetts vs.
EPA. In this brief, Entergy supported the plaintiffs’ position
that the EPA has authority and responsibility to regulate
CO2as an air pollutant under the existing Clean Air Act.
This is the defining issue of our generation. In a recent
survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers, CEOs of North
American-based companies ranked near the bottom of the
world in their concern for climate change. Of the more
than 1,000 CEOs surveyed worldwide, the average voicing
concern on climate change was 40 percent, with Asia Pacific
CEOs at 58 percent. Only 18 percent of North American
CEOs voiced such concern. You owe it to yourself to be
well-informed on both sides of this debate. If you decide
that it is too early to address climate change or simply that
any cost to the economy is too large to accept at this point
in time, that is your right. If you believe, as we do, that
taking no action is a decision that our own lives are more
important than our children or grandchildren, and if you
refuse to be part of that or remembered for that, then send
that message to our elected officials. It is your choice, your
vote. And both will matter.
J. Wayne Leonard
Chairman and CEO
Entergy Corporation