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EPA ADMINISTRATOR BROWNER TO JOIN NRDC & CEG IN CALLING FOR GREATER PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF CHEMICAL EMISSIONS

Release Date: 06/01/99
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FOR RELEASE: TUESDAY, JUNE 1, 1999

MEDIA ADVISORY
EPA ADMINISTRATOR BROWNER TO JOIN NRDC & CEG
IN CALLING FOR GREATER PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF CHEMICAL EMISSIONS

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Carol M. Browner will join the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and utility industry leaders from the Northeast at a press conference to announce a series of voluntary steps utilities will take to provide Americans with the information they need to protect the health of their families. The utilities -- members of the Clean Energy Group (CEG) -- and NRDC will also release a report detailing air toxics emissions from electric generating plants.

EVENT: EPA Administrator Carol M. Browner, CEG, NRDC, and
              representatives from the Public Service Enterprise Group (Newark, N.J.), PG&E Generating (Bethesda, Md.), and KeySpan Energy (Brooklyn, N.Y.) announce voluntary steps to increase public disclosure of chemical emissions.

DATE: Wednesday, June 2, 1999

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

LOCATION: National Press Club, Holeman Lounge
529 14th St. N.W.
13th Floor
Washington, D.C.


For further information, contact Kim Rubey at 202-260-9828.

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