Meet with EPA to explore national Project XL for labs. A. EPA and states have begun to regulate air emissions from laboratories. B. Laboratory spills create waste and are increasingly disruptive and costly. C. Lessons from recent large EPA fines at universities in Region I and California have not been learned by most other institutions. Academia is less aware of environmental requirements, and autonomous faculty are unaware of their compliance responsibilities.
Improvements are necessary for other LabWAM objectives to succeed.
B. DivCHAS co-sponsored lab spill symposium for Boston ACS National Meeting in August 1998.