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Category: Green Chemistry

'Green chemistry' movement sprouts in colleges, companies
Many companies are starting to emphasize reducing or eliminating hazardous substances to save money, reduce inefficiencies and promote their brands to consumers who favor eco-friendly products. "Industry really sees the value of 'green chemistry,'" said Julie Haack, assistant head of the Universi... Continued...

Bio-renewable Chemicals Emerge as the Building Blocks of the Chemical Industry, Finds Frost & Sullivan
The change from a non-renewable to a renewable feedstock base in the chemical industry is accelerating. This is not only due to the increase in the prices of non-renewable feedstock but also because of the growing ability of certain microorganisms to yield higher productivity of the desired chemical... Continued...

NGO praises Apple’s move to end use of bromine and chlorine
By reengineering its iPods, iPhones, laptops, and computers to exclude all forms of bromine and chlorine, Apple, Inc., has "gone further than any other electronics company toward . . . reduc[ing] the risk of exposure to chemicals known or suspected to impact the environment and human health," accord... Continued...

Make a 2009 Green Chemistry Award Nomination
EPA is now accepting nominations for the 2009 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. These awards recognize innovative chemical technologies that incorporate green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture and use, and that have broad applications in industry. Nominated technologies sh... Continued...

Opening the “green pharmacy”
Recent news reports in the U.S. of detectable levels of pharmaceuticals in treated drinking water took many Americans and Congress by surprise. But the problem is an old one, one utility companies have been aware of for years. Drugs that flow from humans into the environment may include the ling... Continued...

U.S. House switches to Naturally Iowa's eco-containers
Anyone concerned about all those plastic water bottles filling up the country's landfills might look to an Iowa dairy for a solution. Clarinda, Iowa-based Naturally Iowa has been making its own bottles out of polylactic acid, or PLA, which is produced from corn and is biodegradable. The operation ... Continued...

California's Green Chemistry Initiative
There is such a thing as better living through chemistry, but only if it's green. As it is, the toxic substances in your sunscreen, plastic bottles, mattresses and a list of other consumer products far too long to cite may be killing you. Chemical manufacturers don't have to disclose much, if any... Continued...

Better living through chemurgy
FORTY years ago Dustin Hoffman’s character in “The Graduate” was given a famous piece of career advice: “Just one word…plastics.” It was appropriate at the time, given that the 1960s were a golden age of petrochemical innovation. Oil was cheap and seemed limitless. Since then, scientists have kept o... Continued...

EPA Honors Recipients of 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
For the 13th straight year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing chemical technologies developed by leading researchers and industrial innovators that are making significant contributions to pollution prevention in the United States. The awards will be given out this evening, June... Continued...

IATP and the U of M hosts "Green Chemistry in Minnesota: Opportunities and Challenges for Leadership"
What: Conference on "Green Chemistry in Minnesota" When: 8:30 a.m.- 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 28 Where: U of M Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 301 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis Contacts: Jamie Proulx, Humphrey Institute, (612) 625-9436 Ryan Mathre, University News Service, (612) 625-0552 ... Continued...

California Chemicals: State should adopt incentives, regulations to stimulate green chemistry economy
California needs to overhaul its regulation of commercial substances and foster a sustainable chemicals sector, says a report released last week by University of California researchers. The state should take this action because diseases attributed to chemical exposure among children and workers c... Continued...

Everday Items, Complex Chemistry
Holiday shoppers this season may still worry if the toys they buy contain lead after more than 10 million children�s products were recalled this year for that reason. But some scientists are urging consumers to focus on a different problem: the lack of hazard information on the thousands of che... Continued...

Suits and Lab Coats: Industry draws on academic know-how to help develop specialty chemicals and other new materials
Universities obtain funding from a variety of sources to support scientific research. Government is the largest benefactor, but endowments, foundation grants, gifts from wealthy individuals, and alumni donations all can influence research projects. And then there is the matter of support from privat... Continued...

Critical Reaction to Research Initiative
DOW CHEMICAL AND BASF, the world's two largest chemical companies, have separately agreed to fund groundbreaking academic research initiatives at two of the most prestigious U.S. universities. One of the partnerships, Dow's sustainability program at the University of California, Berkeley, is raising... Continued...

Green Chemistry Joins College Curriculum
Terry Collins sounds like the world's most dour pessimist. The Carnegie Mellon University chemistry professor paints a bleak picture of the Earth's future, a planet damaged by global warming and ravaged by toxins, with a population sickened by poisonous chemicals. "We are practicing time-limited ... Continued...

Green Chemistry: Changing an Industry
You can't do green design without green materials, and material innovations tend to come from chemists. Chemists also produce many products in their own right: paints, adhesives, cleaning products, whole industries. So what are chemists doing to save the world? There's currently one famous green ... Continued...

Chemicals in Products Can Pose Big Risk to Companies
In the wake of costly litigation, product sales bans, and reputational damage arising from asbestos, toxic materials in cosmetics and toys, and Teflon-related chemicals, U.S. investors are becoming increasingly wary of toxic chemical risks - in products, in supply chains, and in their own portfolios... Continued...

Environment: California Out in Front
When it comes to ecological diversity, California has it all: snow-capped mountains, wide deserts, scenic beaches, and some of the worst environmental problems in the country. Six of the country's ten most polluted cities�Los Angeles, Bakersfield, Fresno�Madera, Visalia�Porterville, Merced, an... Continued...