Word: deqe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assistant state attorney general, JanetO'Kay, defended the decision by the Department ofEnvironmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) tolicense the diesel engines. O'Kay said it was theDEQE's mandate to determine the significance ofhealth risks...
Yesterday's hearing was the second time the SJC has reviewed the legality of the plant. In 1984 it decided that the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) had not investigated possible effects from carcinogens and ordered new hearings to review the problem. That DEQE review is what is now in question...
...With specific respect to air quality, it isbest left to the DEQE to determine and assess on acase by case basis" what plants should open, O'Kaytold the justices, saying that the risk was notthat great...
...attorney representing MATEP, Vernon Vance,echoed the state's arguments. He added that thefour deaths are not necessarily likely nor verysignificant considering current pollution levels.The DEQE made a proper "risk assessment," Vancesaid...
...Thomas Bracken, special counsel to the townof Brookline, argued that the DEQE decision wasfaulty because it dismissed the threat to airquality as insignificant mainly on the groundsthat the air in the Boston/Brookline area isalready polluted...