Brown University agreed to pay $365,000 to settle a complaint that it failed to properly store hazardous waste on campus and committed other environmental violations.
The agreement with the Environmental Protection Agency includes a civil penalty of nearly $80,000. The rest of money will fund environmental projects, including some at four city high schools.
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Brown has more than 300 laboratories, studios and other work sites that use materials requiring special handling and disposal.
The complaint filed last year says the university violated laws governing handling of hazardous waste and protecting water from oil pollution, dating to 1996.
Nearly all the violations occurred at laboratories and waste storage facilities on the school’s 143-acre Providence campus.
The EPA stepped up enforcement on campuses in 1999 and has taken action against the University of New Hampshire, the University of Rhode Island, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Massachusetts’ Amherst campus.
