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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...
...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...
...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