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Newark, N.J.-Based Utility Plans Upgrades to Cut Output of Carbon Dioxide.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, January, 2004

The Record, Hackensack, N.J. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jan. 14--Public Service Enterprise Group said Tuesday that it will voluntarily reduce its carbon dioxide emission rates by more than 10 percent over the next five years.

To do so, the company said, it will add new, clean, and efficient electric generating capacity, increase use of lower-emission fuels, and retire older, less efficient generating units.

Stanley LaBruna, PSEG vice president for environmental health and safety, unveiled the plan at a meeting Tuesday with federal Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Leavitt.

The goal is to reduce emissions rates by the start of 2009 by 18 percent from the 2000 level of 1,789 pounds per megawatt hour,...

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