Word: deqe
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Cambridge currently houses 11 confirmed hazardous waste sites, according to a report released yesterday by the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE...
...Grace site was listed by DEQE as having polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and heavy metal wastes. The site has already been assessed by the Environmental Protection Agency and W.R. Grace was not required to do any specific clean-up, said company spokesman Mark Stoler...
...difference between the legislative and referendum versions is that the latter sets quotas for sites to be identified and cleaned up each year. The Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE), which liberal groups charge with lethargy, would have to identify 400 sites by January 15 of 1987, 600 more in the following year, and 1000 sites every year after that...
Laura Barrett, speaking for the Massachusetts Hazardous Waste Campaign, another ad hoc coalition, said it is illegal in Massachusetts to allocate funds by ballot, and that the measure's requirements are meant to spur the DEQE to action. "We went to the ballot process because we have been going to the legislature for the past three years [without success]," she said...
...inappropriate, inconsistent andunlawful" for the DEQE to make a decision bycomparing the MATEP emissions to pollution fromother existing sources, disregarding the addedthreat to human life, Bracken said