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Nitrous oxides: What everybody is fighting about. Actually nitrogen dioxide, a brownish gas that causes respiratory irritation and disease when present at unsafe levels. Said to be particularly harmful to asthmatics and the very young and very old. People disagree about how much is unhealthy...
...spots: Particularly heavily trafficked areas, such as the Allston toll booth on the Massachusetts Turnpike and the entrance to the Callahan tunnel, which normally display a high level of nitrogen dioxide. Said to be a deadly mixture when combined with the nitrogen dioxide spewed from the smokestack of the Medical Area Total Energy Plant...
...spots," which include Harvard Square, the Callahan tunnel entrance and the Allston toll booth on the turnpike, are areas of heavily congested traffic with already-high nitrogen dioxide levels...
...spots are areas of heavily congested traffic with already-high nitrogen dioxide levels. "The plan and the record did not identify all the hot spots and didn't outline the impact operating the plant would have on those areas," Fierra said last week...
MATEP, designed to provide chilled water, steam heat and electicity to 13 institutions in the medical area, needs the diesels to be cost-and energy-efficient. But community fears of harmful levels of nitrogen dioxide and carcinogenic emissions have blocked DEQE approval for four years...