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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the federal agency charged with overseeing how industries and researchers dispose of dangerous chemicals, slapped the university with the fines last April...
...EPA in recent years has cracked down on hazardous waste infractions at academic institutions, officials at universities have begun to question whether the rules are justified. At a recent meeting convened by the National Institutes of Health, environmental safety officials began to rethink the kinds of rules that cost MIT half a million dollars...
...EPA rules, which were developed in the 1980s with industrial waste production in mind, are “extremely burdensome to [academic] research,” VanSchalkwyk says...
...EPA makes no distinction between a coffee cup and a 10,000 gallon tank of waste,” according to H. Joseph Griffin, director of environmental health and safety at Harvard. “They’re all held to the same standard...
Griffin says the EPA relies on stringent “command and control” regulations that make numerous, specific requirements—down to the exact font that must be used to label hazardous chemicals...