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Several years ago, biotech companies began springing up in Cambridge and along Route 128, a major highway that circles Boston. Many of the firms maintain with close ties to researchers at educational institutions in the Boston area. As ties between universities and biotech companies grew closer, the EPA “singled out” academic institutions and began cracking down on their hazardous waste violations, Barkley says...
...example, the EPA fined Boston University $753,000 for spilling fuel and other violations...
According to EPA officials, the agency is carefully studying the HHMI report and doing its own research on whether its hazardous waste rules are appropriate for academic settings...
Generally, the EPA does not take part in research projects, so Secunda says this experiment is an unusual step for the agency...
...EPA hopes to use the research to revise its hazardous waste rules so they “harmonize with the practical considerations of academic research,” he says...