Category Archives: Green Chemistry

GreenBiz Webinar Series: Benign by Design: Reducing the Toxicity of Products

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Laura B.

How do you make a better, greener product? It’s a question that businesses of all types are posing in light of growing calls by customers and stakeholder for greater environmental responsibility. This is leading some companies to examine their entire … Continue reading →

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Greener Process for Key Ingredient for Everything from Paint to Diapers

Posted on February 11, 2011 by Laura B.

Read the full story from the American Chemical Society. Scientists are reporting discovery of an environmentally friendly way to make a key industrial material — used in products ranging from paints to diapers — from a renewable raw material without … Continue reading →

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Regulators Pull a Bait-and-Switch on Green Chemistry Initiative in California

Posted on December 3, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full story at Triple Pundit. In September 2008, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrated the signing of two bills (AB 1879 and SB 509) that, he said, would propel “California to the forefront of the nation and the world … Continue reading →

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EPA Announces New Tool to Promote Safer Chemicals and Products

Posted on December 1, 2010 by Laura B.

As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced new criteria to help companies and other groups, such as states and environmental organizations, identify safer chemicals. As … Continue reading →

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EPA Calls for Nominations for 2011 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Laura B.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is accepting nominations for the 2011 Annual Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. This year the agency is encouraging nominations for the design of safer and more sustainable chemicals, processes, and products that will protect … Continue reading →

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Industrial chemicals produced from biomass-based oils

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full post at EcoSeed. Chemical engineers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst developed a way to produce key industrial chemicals inexpensively from biomass, cutting the $400 billion industry’s dependence on fossil fuels.

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Green chemistry: A key component to making sustainable, non-toxic products

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full post from the Product Stewardship Institute. This is a blog post by Amy S. Cannon, Executive Director of Beyond Benign in preparation for the PSI Networking Conference Call, “Green Chemistry 101:  Safer Chemicals Mean Safer Product,” on … Continue reading →

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Green chemistry articles from LC/GC

Posted on September 22, 2010 by Laura B.

LC/GC has an interesting series on making chemistry greener. The articles include Green Chemistry, a summary of a recent LC/GC Technology forum. They also published a two-part article that discusses green chemistry and it’s relationship to common methods used in … Continue reading →

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Berkeley Lab Wins Four 2010 R&D 100 Awards

Posted on July 9, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full story at Nanotechnology Now. The winning projects are: Home Energy Saver/Hohm; Rough Silicon Nanowires for Waste Heat Utilization; Chemicals on Demand; and APPELS: Differentially Pumped Ambient Pressure PhotoElectron Lens System for Photoemission Studies. Four inventions from the … Continue reading →

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California's DTSC Releases Draft Green Chemistry Regulation

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Laura B.

Read the full story in Environmental Protection. California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) has released the Draft Regulation for Safer Consumer Products, which will implement a key component of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2008 Green Chemistry Initiative. The regulation creates … Continue reading →

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