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...MATEP has faced 10 years of lawsuit by community activists and run $250 million over budget. But in January the plant finally won permission to operate its carcinogen-producing diesel engines...
Verne W. Vance Jr. '54, who represents Harvard in its legal skirmishes involving the $350 million Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), said the University will file a response to the City of Brookline's Suffolk County Superior Court appeal by the end of this week...
...MATEP is designed to provide steam, chilled water for air conditioning and electricity for the Medical School and surrounding hospitals in Boston...
Last month's DEQE decision gave Harvard the go-ahead to fire up MATEP's six diesel engines, which have been almost completely idle since their installation...
...ruling marked a big win for Harvard, which has held all along that emissions from the Brookline Ave, plant do not pose a severe public health threat. However, MATEP must finish up about three to six months of testing the engines before it can get its final operating permit from the state. Residents of neighboring Brookline and Mission Hill--who have been battling MATEP since 1975--say they will go to Superior Court once more to keep the diesels dead...