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...governor of a state can request a waiver to that regulation for non-profit educational or health institutions like MATEP. Opponents of the plant are unhappy about the possible exemption and promise a battle. If they fail, Harvard will be able to begin installation of the plant's six diesel-powered electric generating units...
...exemption is not overturned before April, Harvard will be able to begin installation of the plant's six diesel-powered electric generating units...
Without an exemption from the Clean Air Act regulations. Harvard might face several sets of hearings before the EPA in an effort to demonstrate that the diesel units would not add significantly to pollution levels in Boston and Brookline...
...plant will release diesel particulates and 6,000 to 8,000 tons of nitrous dioxide into the air each year," Hermos said, adding that Harvard "has done everything it can to avoid the (EPA) proceedings and will do anything it can to avoid constraints on the plant's operation...
Farmers face three major hurdles this year: sharply higher prices for farm machinery, stiff anticipated hikes in the price of diesel fuel, and, of course, the weather. The grain belt's perennial Cassandras are already predicting terrible weather for the spring and summer. This time, though, they have real reason for worry. Last summer's drought left the subsoil in the lower wheat-growing states of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas seriously dehydrated. Another dry summer would cut yields in these areas significantly, and the outlook for rain is not good. Says Iowa's agricultural climatologist Paul Waite...