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...Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals recently upheld the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) exemption of Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plan (MATEP) from clean air standards, clearing the way for completion and full operation of the long-delayed and controversial facility by this summer...
Residents of Brookline and Mission Hill--the towns nearest MATEP's Brookline Ave. and Francis St. Boston location--appealed the EPA decision, contending that an energy plant incorporated by Harvard as a for-profit institution failed to qualify for the exemption...
...appeals court rejected all of the arguments by the MATEP opponents, who have fought the plant, claiming that the diesel engines when operating will emit unsafe leves of nitrous oxides...
Judge Hugh Bownes, who wrote the decision, ruled that although MATEP itself is indeed a power plant incorporated under Massachusetts business statutes, "the meaning of 'non-profit institution' does not turn on whether a corporate entity exists or on how it might be classified...
...women who were arrested Saturday night on charges of illegally selling alcohol in a private home at a party designed to raise money for legal opposition to Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) will appear in a hearing before a West Roxbury District Court clerk on November...