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Ron Williams: Touring the EPA’s R&D lab

Almost from its inception in the late 1960s, the Environmental Protection Agency has been driven by research. In fact, the EPA's R&D campus in North Carolina's ...

August 3, 2015 10:27 am

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Almost from its inception in the late 1960s, the Environmental Protection Agency has been driven by research. In fact, the EPA's R&D campus in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park houses 15 offices and is the largest EPA facility ever built. Ron Williams is a senior research chemist in the EPA's Office of Research and Development. On the Federal Drive, he told Federal News Radio's Tom Temin more about some of the projects being developed at the lab.