U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
The administration is asking for $5.7 billion in fiscal 2018 funding for the EPA
Proposed regulations for laboratory cold storage manufacturers could be an issue if deadline extension is not granted.
On April 10, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced research grants to Arizona State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara to better understand the impacts of chemicals and nanomaterials throughout their life cycle—from design, manufacture, use and disposal.
Laboratories frequently accumulate bottles of old chemicals, often toxic or hazardous, that are no longer used. Laboratory managers can use several strategies to properly reuse or dispose of these chemicals.