Power company says impact is 'significant and substantial' and calls for

                        multi-pollutant legislation



    NEWARK, N.J., July 29 /EMWNews/ -- Eric Svenson, PSEG's

vice president of environment, health and safety, testified today before

Congress about the implications of a recent federal appeals court decision

that struck down the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Interstate

Rule (also known as CAIR). CAIR would have resulted in dramatic reductions

in particulate matter and ozone and helped to eliminate smog, asthma and

other chronic and acute respiratory effects. Clean air and public health

are threatened in its absence.



    Svenson told the Senate Clean Air and Nuclear Safety Subcommittee that

the impact of the ruling would be "significant and substantial" and called

for Congress to act quickly to pass multi-pollutant legislation like that

championed by subcommittee chairman Senator Tom Carper (D-DE).



    He said the rescinding of CAIR and the continued implementation of a

patchwork of state and regional programs governing carbon dioxide have

created "a chaotic regulatory environment."



    PSEG believes that legislation addressing the four major power plant

pollutants -- nitrogen (NOX), sulfur dioxide (SO2), carbon dioxide (CO2)

and mercury -- is critical for ensuring timely public health and

environmental benefits, business certainty, and a level playing field for

the electric generating sector.



    Svenson urged Congress to restart the legislative discussion and

quickly pass multi-pollutant legislation, saying that the electric sector

"needs certainty."



    CAIR would have resulted in considerable public health benefits as well

as increased industry investment in pollution controls. With the rescinding

of CAIR, "we are stuck with an inefficient, more expensive system with

significant public health costs and much less environmental benefit,"

Svenson told Congress.



    "The ruling threatens to tie the hands of the EPA as it tries to find

economically efficient and effective methods to improve public health and

our environment," Svenson said. He added that the ruling leaves "a huge

regulatory hole."



    Go to the "news" section at http://www.pseg.com to see Svenson's written and

oral testimony in its entirety.



    Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) is a publicly traded diversified

energy company with annual revenues of more than $13 billion, and three

principal subsidiaries: PSEG Power, PSEG Energy Holdings, and Public

Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G). PSEG Power, one of the largest

independent power producers in the U.S. has three main subsidiaries: PSEG

Fossil, PSEG Nuclear, and PSEG Energy Resources & Trade. PSEG Energy

Holdings has two main unregulated energy-related businesses: PSEG Global

and PSEG Resources. PSE&G, New Jersey's oldest and largest regulated gas

and electric delivery utility, serves nearly three-quarters of New Jersey's

population.