"GenOn Energy’s Portland Generating Station is a 60 year-old coal-fired power plant on the Delaware River directly across from New Jersey. This plant is making residents of both Pennsylvania and New Jersey sick. In Pennsylvania, its toxic coal ash sits in an improperly lined and under-monitored quarry, placing the community at risk for mercury, arsenic and lead poisoning.

From The Express-Times: http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/slate-belt/index.ssf/2012/01/environmental_groups_to_sue_ep.html

Residents presented 543 petitions to Bangor Pa.

On Halloween,  the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a life-saving rule to protect the health of the residents of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  The EPA has granted New Jersey’s Section 125 petition under the Clean Air Act and is requiring that the GenOn Portland Generating Station reduce its harmful sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions over the next three years. 

Dear friends,   
How about joining MAPLE (Multi-state Alliance to Promote Lasting Energy), on October 22nd, for a story telling training and day of action? We will be discussing the best way to tell our personal stories about being impacted by coal and how to talk to other community members about our efforts to shut down the Portland Plant. We'll then take what we learned out into Bangor to collect petition signatures that will later be delivered directly to GenOn.

"On September 24th, 2011, I joined with people all over the world to call on governments and corporations to leave dirty fuels like coal and oil behind in favor of clean, renewable energy.

As events were taking place in hundreds of countries and thousands of cities, I stood on the side of a country road in front of the GenOn-owned Portland Generating Station with over 40 people from surrounding communities.  

 
Dear members of the Portland Generation Station group,
On September 24, people around the world will come together for a powerful global mobilization, putting our demands for climate solution into action.