ACID RAIN PROTESTED AT MD. PEPCO PLANT

Demonstrators protesting acid rain damage climbed two 400-foot smokestacks yesterday and tried to scale a transmission tower at Maryland's largest power plant, a utility spokeswoman said. Eight persons were arrested.

Four Greenpeace demonstrators climbed smokestack catwalks and unfurled two vertical banners -- "Congress Act Now" and "Stop Acid Rain" -- at the Potomac Electric Power Co.'s Chalk Point facility, which releases pollutants that Greenpeace has said contribute to the acid rain problem.

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