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...project ran into trouble last January when a state environmental agency ruled that Harvard could not install diesel generators in the plant because they would allegedly produce dangerous levels of the pollutant nitrogen dioxide...
Michael Lambert, a Mission Hill resident who participated in the hearings as an opponent of the power plant, said yesterday, "The fight seems to have boiled down to what level of nitrogen dioxide will be harmful to public health...
Both local opponents of the plant and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering introduced experts at the hearings who testified that levels above 200 micrograms per cubic meter of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere will aggravate lung ailments and reduce immunity to disease, particularly among children and the elderly...
...Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said last week the level of nitrogen dioxide in Boston's air already rises above 200 micrograms per cubic meter several days each year. Lashman said Harvard promised earlier this year to operate the plant so that the level would not exceed 400 micrograms. He added he thought that was a safe limit...
Dawson reviewed several scientific experiments showing that levels of nitrogen dioxide above 200 micrograms per cubic meter will aggravate lung ailments in asthmatics, and possibly in children and the elderly...