December 17, 2004

Colleges May Get a Break on Hazardous-Waste Rules

By KELLY FIELD

Proposed change by EPA follows crackdown and years of lobbying by institutions

Map: Showing waste-management penalties at collegesBy KELLY FIELD

In 1997 inspectors from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency visited the University of Hawaii and found thousands of containers of hazardous chemicals stashed in an old fallout shelter beneath the Manoa campus's main chemistry building. The agency fined the university for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, the

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