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...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...
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...