Our success as a company rests on superior environmental performance and our willingness to engage regulators, environmentalists, communities and others around our environmental record and our plans for the future.

At the conclusion of our $5.2 billion environmental retrofit program, we will have installed controls that dramatically reduce airborne emissions on nearly three-quarters of our coal-burning power plants. Through 2008, we already have invested $4.36 billion in this program.

As a result, in 2008 sulfur dioxide (SO₂) emissions from AEP power plants declined more than 100,000 tons — a 15 percent reduction from 2007 levels. In addition to air quality, we manage many other impacts to the environment every day. From landfills and ash ponds to water quality, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and electronic waste such as computers, cell phones and monitors, we have a social as well as legal responsibility to do what’s right.