Green Chemistry would like to congratulate the recent winners of the EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards promote the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry. These prestigious annual awards recognise chemical technologies that incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use.
2016 Award Winners
For Greener Synthetic Pathways
CB&I
Albemarle
AlkyClean® Technology: An Inherently Safer Technology for the Production of Gasoline Alkylate
For Greener Reaction Conditions
Dow AgroSciences LLC
Instinct® Technology – Making Nitrogen Fertilizers Work More Effectively for Farmers and the Planet
For Designing Greener Chemicals and Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change
Newlight Technologies
AirCarbon: Greenhouse Gas Transformed into High-Performance Thermoplastic
For Small Business
Verdezyne
Renewable Nylon Through Commercialization of BIOLONTM DDDA
For Academic
Professor Paul J. Chirik of Princeton University
Catalysis with Earth Abundant Transition Metals
For more information please visit the EPA website.
