Covanta adjusts conversion rate on its 3.25% cash convertible senior notes due 2014 to 60.3520 from 59.4517 shares of its common stock per US$1,000 principal amount of the notes

Graziela Medina Shepnick

MORRISTOWN, New Jersey , December 22, 2011 (press release) – Covanta Holding Corporation (NYSE: CVA - News) ("Covanta") today announced an adjustment to the conversion rate on its 3.25% cash convertible senior notes due 2014 in connection with its previously announced dividend payable on January 5, 2012 to stockholders of record as of December 21, 2011. As a result of this dividend, the conversion rate was adjusted to 60.3520 from 59.4517 shares of Covanta's common stock per $1,000 principal amount of the notes. The adjusted conversion rate is equivalent to an adjusted conversion price of $16.57 per share, compared to $16.82 per share.

About Covanta

Covanta is an internationally recognized owner and operator of large-scale Energy-from-Waste and renewable energy projects and a recipient of the Energy Innovator Award from the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. Covanta's 44 Energy-from-Waste facilities provide communities with an environmentally sound solution to their solid waste disposal needs by using that municipal solid waste to generate clean, renewable energy. Annually, Covanta's modern Energy-from-Waste facilities safely and securely convert approximately 20 million tons of waste into 9 million megawatt hours of clean renewable electricity and more than 9 billion pounds of steam that are sold to a variety of industries. For more information, visit www.covantaenergy.com.

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