On Roush Lane, about 3/4 miles from the plant, live close to 50 families. Paul and April Stinson of Roush Lane started their own grassroots organization for those not included in the buyout: Citizens Against Pollution or CAP. The organization’s main goal is to bring political and economic pressure on American Electric Power in order to persuade them to clean up their coal-fired power plants. CAP hopes to shed light on the lack of strict enforcement from EPA on Gavin and other similar plants, but compliance is not enough for these budding activists. They want Gavin to limit emissions even further than what the law currently requires.

The Stinsons made CAP's presence and their goals known by holding monthly meetings, creating a letter to the editor campaign, and participating in local events like parades in which they carried signs that read, "Left Behind" and "Solution Not Pollution." With the Columbus Dispatch , they organized a soil sampling analysis and contacted national activist groups like Bucket Brigade to begin air sampling. Following in the Village Council's footsteps, CAP began documenting the emissions from Gavin and assembled slideshow presentations of digital photos of the plant to present to the news media and to local environmental groups.

Still strong with over 80 members, including several Cheshire villagers who opted to remain in town, on May 12, 2004, CAP filed a citizen suit under several environmental statutes to require AEP to stop polluting. Trial Lawyers for Public Justice (TLPJ) is helping CAP to force AEP to reduce the amount of sulfuric acid mist it emits from the Gavin Power Plant. The sulfuric acid mist is a byproduct from the Selective Catalytic Reduction units built in 2001 used to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions. The mist comprises the blue plumes that began covering Cheshire in 2001. According to the complaint filed by TLPJ, in a June 2002 report to EPA, AEP stated that it could effectively mitigate the cause of the sulfuric acid mist by switching to low sulfur coal or by installing a wet electrostatic precipitation system. But, the complaint says, AEP rejected either option as too expensive. CAP is not seeking damages for personal injuries, but an end to the blue plumes, lack of transparency from the plant, and lack of public notification about the hazards of the plant's emissions.

Excerpts from a filmed interview with Paul Stinson and the filmmakers in July 2002.