EPA Bends Waste Rules for 3 Colleges in Test

The Environmental Protection Agency last month approved an experiment in which three New England colleges will attempt to meet a target for increased recycling of hazardous chemical wastes from laboratory experiments. If they are successful, the agency, in return, will relax federal environmental rules governing such wastes.

The experiment -- the first of its kind in the nation -- initially will cover only Boston College, the University of Massachusetts at

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