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I wanted to give you the heads-up that Enron's name will appear in a Wall
Street Journal article tomorrow on multipollutant. As I have discussed with most of you before, we have been working in a coalition of companies (temporarily named the "Clean Power Group") including El Paso, Trigen, Calpine and NiSource to develop legislative proposals on multipollutant emission reductions from the power generation sector. The group has hired Dutko Group lobbying firm to help float some of our initial ideas in the Administration and on Capitol Hill. Mark Irion of Dutko spoke with John Fialka at WSJ today and discussed some of our concepts. Background -- we have developed ideas that focus on making emissions reductions in NOx, SO2, mercury and CO2 in exchange for regulatory reforms to the New Source Review program. We have structured these proposals in a way that holds multiple benefits for Enron -- promoting development of new generation, providing incentives to use new technologies and a diverse fuel mix, and environmental benefits with economic protections. This is also an issue of competitiveness, as the big, regulated utilities with high-emitting grandfathered sources are trying to mold these issues in a way that would disadvantage new entrants. We have had very positive discussions with many in the Administration and on the Hill, and are hoping some of our ideas are embraced in energy task force reports, legislation, etc. Note on CO2 -- the multipollutant debate has changed somewhat since Bush took CO2 caps "off the table" for the U.S. power sector. We are not forwarding ideas that say "we must include CO2 caps", rather we are saying we can do multipollutant effectively and economically -- if policymakers want to include CO2, we can show them how to do it without causing economic collapse. We plan to discuss this issue in more detail with many Corp and commercial groups at our Emissions Strategy Meeting, which now looks like it will be held on May 18 in Houston. Please let me know if you have questions or need additional information. Please feel free to forward to anyone else you believe should see this note. Thanks, Jeff Jeffrey Keeler Director, Environmental Strategies Enron Washington DC office - (202) 466-9157 Cell Phone (203) 464-1541
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