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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...
...Brookline town government and the Brookline Citizens to Protect the Environment told the EPA that Harvard originally designed the plant as a profit-making corporation and only changed its status when the facility became a "losing proposition," Daniel G. Partan, a town selectman, said yesterday...
...anti-MATEP group also told the EPA that it should not exempt the plant as an educational or health related institution because only 20 per cent of its output will be used by the University, Partan said...
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...