Sierra Club to Sponsor Saturday Bike Ride

The Sierra Club invites the public to participate in a 15-mile bicycle ride on Saturday, April 28, to show support for clean energy.

The ride will start at 10 a.m. on the bay side of Ocean City at Tennessee Avenue — across the bay from the B.L. England Generating Station in Beesleys Point, a coal-fueled power plant. The ride will end at the Atlantic County Utilities Authority wind farm in Atlantic City.

B.L. England faces a Dec. 15 deadline (for one of its units) to 1) add pollution controls to the existing coal-burning facility, 2) repower using natural gas as fuel, or 3) to shut down the facility. Another unit faces a Dec. 15, 2013, deadline. B.L. England is , according to recent reports.

City Council in Ocean City will calling for the power plant to meet the deadlines without further extensions.

Saturday's "Roll Beyond Coal" ride is intended as a rally for wind power and clean energy sources. Organizers are asking for volunteers to help transport riders and bicycles from Atlantic City back to Ocean City.

For more information, visit the Sierra Club's event page.