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...DEQE counsel recommended recently that the $175 million MATEP be allowed to install the diesels if it meets certain environmental conditions. This recommendation contradicts a January 1978 ruling by a DEQE hearing officer that MATEP's diesels--which may produce levels of nitrogen dioxide harmful to humans and animals--should not be installed...
Thomas B. Bracken, attorney for Brookline Citizens to Protect the Environment, yesterday declined comment on the letter, adding that his group has already written Fierra to protest the DEQE counsel's recommendations...
...letter gives all parties two weeks to respond, Fierra said yesterday. "Legally, there was no way I could make a decision" on the basis of the counsel's recommendation, he added...
Paul Halvonik, who had a respected record as an American Civil Liberties Union counsel before his judicial appointment, is a longtime friend and former aide to Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., who named him to the bench in 1978. Previously he had been California's first state public defender and a state deputy attorney general. Fellow jurists who know his work have nothing but praise for him. Says San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harry W. Low, until recently president of the California Judges' Association: "He's got an excellent legal mind and a good sense...
Community groups are unhappy. They don't want any nitrogen dioxide--even amounts federal authorities have determined to be safe--floating into their backyards. The groups argue that after a DEQE hearing officer issued a decision, other officials shouldn't have chimed in. Michael Lambert, co-counsel for the Mission Hill residents, reflects the bottom line feelings; "Once Harvard gets the diesels in," he says, "they'll never take them down or shut them off." The community has visions of teeming hordes of Harvard-trained-and-hired lawyers streaming into courthouses, keeping the diesels running no matter how much nitrogen...