With more than a dozen events throughout Pennsylvania, Maine and Montana, PPL will offer numerous opportunities for people to learn, act and celebrate in honor of Earth Day. It’s a part of PPL’s long history of generating and delivering electricity in environmentally responsible ways.

“PPL understands how important it is to conserve natural resources and protect the environment as we operate our business,” said William H. Spence, executive vice president and chief operating officer of PPL. “Earth Day gives us a chance to recognize the work being done to support that mission and also offers opportunities for others to make an impact.”

To help ensure that its coal-fired power plants operate as cleanly as possible, PPL is investing $1.5 billion to install pollution-control equipment called “scrubbers” at the Brunner Island and Montour plants in Pennsylvania. These scrubbers will remove nearly all of the plants’ sulfur dioxide emissions.

PPL also plans to invest $100 million in renewable energy projects such as the gas-to-electricity facilities it has developed at landfills in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, which generate electricity using methane gas that would otherwise be vented or burned off.

PPL Electric Utilities is expanding efforts to raise awareness about energy efficiency and will launch a new Web site later this year that will enable customers to track daily usage, analyze changes in their home’s energy use and obtain energy advice.

In addition, PPL Electric Utilities is proposing a consumer rebate program to encourage the use of programmable thermostats and compact fluorescent lights, both of which have the ability to save customers energy and money.

Also this Earth Day and throughout April and May, many PPL employees will take part in activities in the surrounding communities in addition to the work they do every day to ensure their plants run in a safe and environmentally sound manner.

Throughout Pennsylvania, Maine and Montana, PPL will offer activities ranging from programs at our environmental preserves to cleanups of local rivers and streams to a special community event at the Plaza at PPL Center in Allentown, Pa. And everyone is invited to explore the environment around PPL facilities by taking part in a geocaching adventure.
 
PPL’s Earth Day-related events are:

April 18:

• Discover Lancaster County’s wildflowers with naturalist and photographer Fred Habegger during “The Wildflowers of Lancaster County” at 7 p.m. at Roddy Hall at Millersville University.

April 19:

• Earth Day on the Plaza will be held from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Ninth and Hamilton streets, Allentown. This free, outdoor event features hands-on activities for children, informational sessions for individuals of all ages, exhibits, music and refreshments.

April 21:

• PPL’s African-American Business Resource Group will clean up Allentown’s Valania Park, picking up trash and helping to spread a new spring coating of mulch.
• Employees of PPL’s Brunner Island power plant invite everyone to join them for an Earth Day celebration from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the community soccer fields near the plant on Wago Road.
• The Pike-Wayne Earth Day Festival offers a day of fun and learning opportunities at PPL’s Wallenpaupack Environmental Learning Center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• PPL will partner with the Martins Jacoby Watershed Association and Lower Mount Bethel Township to clean up a logjam blocking Martins Creek. The cleanup will begin at 8:30 a.m. and finish by noon. Registration is required. To register or get directions, contact John Mauser at 610-498-2126. Registered volunteers will meet at 8 a.m. at the Palmeri Funeral Home on Route 611.
• Work alongside volunteers from PPL and the Chillisquaque Limestone Watershed Association as we clean up a portion of the Chillisquaque Creek in Derry Township, Montour County. Volunteers should meet at 8 a.m. at the Montour Preserve Environmental Education Center, 700 Preserve Road, Danville. We anticipate finishing by 10:30 a.m.
• Join PPL for a family friendly Earth Day celebration with nationally recognized environmental educator Michael Caduto from 9:30-11 a.m. at Montour Environmental Preserve’s Environmental Education Center.

April 22:

• Volunteers will conduct a spring cleanup along the Lock 12 area of the Susquehanna River at PPL’s Holtwood Environmental Preserve beginning at 1 p.m.
• Join PPL and the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources for the dedication of the Foul Rift Natural Area at 1 p.m. at Cedars Pavilion on Foul Rift Road at PPL’s Martins Creek Environmental Preserve. The event will be followed by a wildflower walk and invasive species removal project.
• Learn the beat of everyday life with international musician Mary E. Knysh from 2-3 p.m. at the Susquehanna Energy Information Center.

April 27:

• Celebrate Earth Day and Arbor Day with PPL Montana and the city of Colstrip at Pine Butte Elementary School.

April 29:

• Sponsored in part by PPL, the Inaugural Atlantic Salmon Spawning Run 15K Race will help raise funds for the Penobscot River Restoration Project, which will restore the natural flow of Maine’s largest watershed.

May 12:

• PPL will support volunteers as they work to clean up the Penobscot River in communities from Bangor to Milford, Maine.

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PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL), headquartered in Allentown, controls about 11,000 megawatts of generating capacity in the United States, sells energy in key U.S. markets and delivers electricity to nearly 5 million customers in Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom and Latin America.