“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land.  Widespread and rapid changes in the atmosphere, cryosphere and biosphere have occurred.”  This is how the current state of the climate was described in last month’s I...

On June 11, Helen Sneddon, Ph.D., Scientific Team Director in Medicinal Chemistry at GlaxoSmithKline, presented an overview of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable tools during the 25th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conf...

The ACS Green Chemistry Institute Oilfield Chemistry Roundtable (OCR) is seeking a one-year R&D commitment to assist the Roundtable’s discovery of friction reducers and high-viscosity friction reducers that are viable alternatives to current polyacry...

By Matthew Deinhardt, ACS Green Chemistry InstituteAgilent Technologies shares how they are leading the way in sustainable supply chains and instrument production from a holistic approach.Agilent, a 2021 Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference Gold ...

Contributed by Jonathon Moir, Ph.D., Program Manager, Green Chemistry Teaching and Learning Community (GCTLC), Beyond Benign As the 2021/2022 school year begins and many students have returned to in-person classes across the U.S., effective strategie...

Learn more about the ACS Green Chemistry Institute student awards. Deadlines begin on October 8, 2021....

Contributed by Christine Aurigemma, Pfizer, San Diego, CA, USA The “Integration of Greener, Process-Friendly Approaches for Monitoring Reactions for Pharmaceutical End-Game Chemistry” session featured quality speakers from industry and academia, incl...

By Anthony Maiorana, polymer chemist and writer of The Polymerist NewsletterIf we think about modern industrial chemistry, things really took off around the 1940s as steam cracking, catalytic cracking, and the use of synthetic materials started to be...

By Ian Mallov, research chemist at Inkbox InkWhen Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson offered $25 million for the invention of an efficient carbon sequestration technology in 2007, an Oregon environmentalist named Andy Kerr cheekily submitted a drawin...

Thanks to everyone who joined the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® for the 25th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering (GC&E) Conference the week of June 14! The Conference Co-Chairs, Jillian Goldfarb at Cornell University and Guy Humphrey at Merck, did ...

By Aurora Ginzburg, Ph.D., Education Program Specialist, ACS Green Chemistry Institute; and Jennifer MacKellar, Program Manager, ACS Green Chemistry Institute In 2015 and 2020, the ACS GCI surveyed ACS members in higher education to evaluate the stat...

We are thrilled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference when conference attendees gather virtually next month!  The inaugural conference was organized in 1997 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and r...

Contributed by Dr. Michal Freedhoff, Principal Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, U.S. Environmental Protection AgencyThis year marks the 25th anniversary of the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards...

Contributed by Samy Ponnusamy, Ph.D., Fellow & Global Manager – Green Chemistry, MilliporeSigma, St Louis, MO; Srinivasan Ambatipati, Ph.D., Assistant Professor & Coordinator of Chemical Engineering, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LAIn this ...