Covanta Expects to Announce Chief Financial Officer Promptly.

Business Editors

FAIRFIELD, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 22, 2002

Covanta Energy Corporation (NYSE: COV) today announced the resignation of Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Edward Moneypenny, effective February 1, 2002.

Mr. Moneypenny has been appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer of 7-Eleven, Inc. in Dallas, Texas, where he has lived for the past 23 years.

Covanta also announced that it has reached agreement with a candidate for the position and expects to announce that individual's appointment promptly. The executive search firm of Seiden Krieger Associates, Inc. conducted the search for this position.

Scott G. Mackin, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "I want to thank Ed for all his hard work and service to Covanta. He joined the Company early last year and has played an important role in our financial restructuring process. In addition, he has helped us strengthen our internal reporting systems. While his services will be missed as we continue the strategic review process that is currently underway, we wish him all the best in returning to the Dallas business community, where he has worked for more than 20 years."

Covanta Energy Corporation is an internationally recognized designer, developer, owner and operator of power generation projects and provider of related infrastructure services. The Company's independent power business develops, structures, owns, operates and maintains projects that generate power for sale to utilities and industrial users worldwide. Its waste-to-energy facilities convert municipal solid waste into energy for numerous communities, predominantly in the United States. The Company also offers single-source design/build/operate capabilities for water and wastewater treatment infrastructures. Additional information about Covanta can be obtained via the Internet at www.covantaenergy.com, or through the Company's automated information system at 866-COVANTA (268-2682).

Certain statements included in this news release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Forward-looking statements above include, but are not limited to, expected earnings and future financial performance. Although Covanta believes that its expectations are reasonable, it can give no assurance that these expectations will prove to have been correct. Factors that could cause Covanta's actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in the forward-looking statements above include, among others, the following:

-- Economic, capital market and other business conditions effecting power
generation enterprises specifically and commerce generally including interest,
inflation and exchange rates; weather conditions; creditworthiness of customers
and suppliers, changes in fuel costs and supply; unscheduled outages;
environmental incidents; electric transmission restraints and risks and
uncertainties associated with the recently deregulated energy industry;

-- Trade, monetary, fiscal, taxation, energy regulation and environmental
policies of governments, agencies and similar organizations in geographic areas
where Covanta has a financial interest;

-- Financial or regulatory accounting principles or policies imposed by the
Financial Accounting Standards Board, the Securities and Exchange Commission,
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and similar entities with regulatory
oversight, including without limitation the impact of newly adopted FASB 133
relating to accounting for derivatives which is effective beginning January 1,
2001. The impact of FASB 133 will vary between accounting periods based on
changes in pricing of various items bought and sold by the Company.

-- Cost and other effects of legal and administrative proceedings, settlements,
investigations and claims;

-- Limitations on Covanta's ability to control the development or operation of
projects in which Covanta has less than 100% interest;

-- The lack of operating history at development projects provides only a
limited basis for management to project the results of future operations.