Mondo Visione Worldwide Financial Markets Intelligence

FTSE Mondo Visione Exchanges Index:

CBOT/EPA To Announce SO2 Emission Allowance Auction Results 3-28

Date 26/03/2001

The Chicago Board of Trade and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency at 10:00 a.m. (Central Time) on March 28 will announce the results of the ninth annual sulfur dioxide (SO2) emission allowance auction, held on behalf of the EPA, during a briefing for the media.

Participating in the announcement of the auction results will be CBOT® member Richard L. Sandor, Chairman/CEO of Environmental Financial Products; Brian McLean Director of the EPA’s Clean Air Markets Division; and Gary Hart, President of The Emission Marketing Association, and Manager of Emissions Trading, Southern Companies, Birmingham, Alabama.

The briefing will take place in the CBOT® Board Room, and members and others may participate through a teleconference link at 800-860-2442 approximately 10 minutes before the start of the program, or listen to the briefing via the CBOT®’s Internet web site at www.cbot.com.

The audience for the auction is nationwide and worldwide, with interest in the results expressed by some 1,500 publication and other media in the U.S. and Europe.