The College Hill Neighborhood Association is suing Brown University to halt the school from building its new life science building, alleging the facility will emit toxins harmful to the environment and area residents.
The new 168,800-square-foot, $95 million research center on Meeting Street is being built adjacent to Brown’s BioMedical Center. Construction has been going on for more than eight months.
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The neighborhood association filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief May 21 with U.S. District Court of Rhode Island to force Brown and the two federal agencies helping fund the project to conduct a more in-depth environmental study before moving forward with the project, which is already under construction.
The three parties have until Aug. 31 to file responses to the injunction. A judge will decide if a more in-depth environmental study needs to be performed.
Under the National Environmental Policy Act, when a federal agency contributes funding to a project, the agency has to study the environmental impacts. The Department of Energy is contributing $1 million to the building and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded Brown $5.25 million.
