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Dear 'Links,
With your help we have collected dozens of photos depicting dirty emissions from the power plant. These photos, posted on our website, are invaluable and have gained the attention the Department of Environmental Protection and other officials.
We'd like to take this one step further. If you have a clear  view of the stacks or know someone who does, click here
State Rep. Lori Ehrlich, who is keenly aware of the stakes involved of living in the shadows of a filthy coal-fired power plant, discusses the opacity violations and the intention of Conservation Law Foundation to file a suit against Dominion for violating the Clean Air Act in her column below.
Marblehead Reporter
Submitted by Rep. Lori Ehrlich
February 4, 2010
All neighbors have a stake in the power-plant suit
For more than half a century, the Salem Harbor Power Station has sat on our shore burning coal and belching a dark plume of soot that blankets our neighborhoods day and night. On any given day, we can find a film of this soot everywhere from our cars to our decks. There is no debate that, with every breath, our families and neighbors are absorbing mercury, soot and particulates laced with deadly toxins. The cost to our health is too high, and that's why many of us have been fighting for decades to prompt the owners, currently Dominion Resources, a giant Virginia-based energy company, to clean up this filthy and long-depreciated facility. Read more...
Mark your Calendar
Tuesday, Feb 9 - Greater Salem Green Drinks, SOMA restaurant, Cabot Street, Beverly, 7 p.m.
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