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Local opponents of Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) filed a complaint this week with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), disputing the agency's tentative plan to exempt the plant from federal pollution regulations...
...complaint questions the EPA's recent decision that MATEP does not have to comply with the Clean Air Act because it is a non-profit facility...
Harvard's controversial Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) may soon move one step closer to actually producing some energy. A spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said this week that the plant will probably receive an exemption from the Clean Air Act, which Gov. Edward J. King requested earlier this year. EPA rules stipulate that the agency monitor potential sources of pollution, but the 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...
...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...
Because of the controvery over MATEP, the EPA has designated the last two weeks of March as a "public comment period...