Boston Globe: Judge orders further review of lab to study deadly germs
A state judge has ordered further environmental review of Boston University Medical Center’s construction of a high-security laboratory, where researchers would study the world’s deadliest germs.
In a decision made public today, Suffolk Superior Court Judge Ralph D. Gants found that earlier environmental assessments of the South End lab failed to adequately consider alternative sites or weigh worst-case scenarios for the release of highly contagious viruses or bacteria. Gants said that when the state Department of Environmental Affairs approved the earlier environmental review of the lab, that decision “lacked the necessary rational basis.”
As a result, Gants ordered a new review.
The decision does not explicitly halt construction of the $178 million building, which began earlier this year on Albany Street.
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