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Could it happen here? That was the question asked by many Americans after last month's disaster at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in which a leak of poisonous methyl isocyanate gas killed more than 2,000 people. Two reports released last week about a similar Union Carbide plant in Institute, W. Va., raised new worries. In one, the Environmental Protection Agency found that methyl isocyanate had leaked from the plant 28 times from 1980 to 1984, apparently in small quantities. The EPA is investigating...
...community activists in Brookline and Mission Hill aim their guns for another series of legal assaults on Harvard's $350-million Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), the power plant's diesel electric generators are finally coming to life this spring for the first time in years. MATEP, designed to simultaneously produce steam, chilled water and electricity for hospitals in the Medical Area, has proved a costly 14-year headache for the University...
...megawatt MATEP can finally start achieving the energy efficiency for which it was designed. Approval of the diesels came earlier this month when a state agency ruled that while poisonous exhaust from MATEP's stack could give four people lung cancer over the 40-year operating life of the plant, that risk is not unreasonable...
...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...
Harvard as an institution, by contrast, has not always followed this example--as is amply demonstrated by its deplorable behavior as a Cambridge landlord, or it foisting of a costly power plant on the people of Mission Hill. To the University's credit, though, the last few years have seen marked improvement in its willingness to back up materially its professed ideals of service to society. Last year the Law School set aside some money for students wishing to pursue low paying public service work during the summer, rather than the prices corporate work so many seek. The Medical School...