As an organic chemist on the outskirts of Pharma... My company just decided to outsource our chemistry to China. It's less expensive, and they gave a huge facility that no one could run here. We'll still be doing drug testing here, but we don't have to deal with the environmental issues of running a lab of that size here.
I don't want to hurt our environment any more than the next guy, but the regulations are so complex that I can't even figure out what signs are required in our waste area.
If we're serous about wanting to keep chemistry jobs in the US, we need to streamline the hazardous waste regulations to make them easier to follow (not necessarily less stringent).
