Word: deqe
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Harvard suffered a major setback in January when the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) handed down a ruling prohibiting installation of the facility's diesel generators because of possible air pollution problems. The University has, however, enjoyed a string of recent victories in the courts. In addition, construction is now 50-to-60 per cent complete--and that disturbs many power plant opponents who believe that the further Harvard progresses with construction, the harder it will be to ultimately stop the plant from going into operation...
...largest challenge facing University officials and attorneys this fall is the appeal of the DEQE decision prohibiting the generators. In the Oct. 16 appeal hearing, Hearing Officer Ellyn Weiss will review the DEQE decision and other evidence presented by Harvard, the DEQE, and neighborhood groups opposed to the power plant. The selection of Weiss--a former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts who now has a private practice in Washington, D.C.--was in itself something of a victory for Harvard. University attorneys claimed earlier this year that the original hearing officer, Assistant State Atty. Gen. Charles Corkin, Jr., was biased against...
...surprising third legal action, Robert W. Meserve, the Harvard power plant attorney, yesterday requested a temporary restraining order against the appointment of Assistant State Atty. Gen. Charles Corkin, Jr., as the hearing officer for the appeal within the DEQE...
...Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said yesterday Harvard will seek to prevent Corkin from being the appeal hearing officer, who recommends a decision to the DEQE commissioner, allegedly because "he is biased against because he is allegedly "biased against Harvard's lawyers, although he is probably objective as far as the substance of the case is concerned...
Willard R. Pope, the legal counsel to the DEQE, acknowledged yesterday that one of Corkin's letters to Meserve had been "rude," but said he thinks Corkin is impartial...