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The Nexus Blog and Newsletter is published by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® to connect and expand the global green chemistry and engineering community. Learn more about us: www.acs.org/gci.
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Green Chemistry News Roundup: April 9-15, 2016

How a Competitor's Data can Help your Company Cut Pollution

April 14, 2016 | GreenBiz

Companies looking for ways to reduce pollution need look no further than the Environmental Protection Agency.

Companies Get Serious About Water Use

April 13, 2016 | BBC New

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Green Chemistry News Roundup: April 2-8, 2016

Tesla’s Model 3 orders are through the roof. Here’s what that means for the planet.

April 6, 2016 | Washington Post

Tesla Motors unveiled its latest electric car, the Model 3, on March 31, with a lower price tag and 2017 delivery date. Tesla chief executiv

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The Impact of My First Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference

Contributed by Thomas P. Umile, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Gwynedd Mercy University

“I am pleased to announce that you have been selected to receive an NSF Student Scholarship to attend the 2007 Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, June 26-29,

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Green Chemistry News Roundup: March 26-31, 2016

New bachelor programme in chemistry opens doors to international jobs

March 30, 2016 | University of Copenhagen News

Denmark needs chemists who can develop efficient and environmentally sound extraction of fossil oil and gas.

Toxicity is a hazardous waste

Mar

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Green Chemistry News Roundup: March 13-25, 2016

BPA Substitute can trigger Fat Cell Formation: Chemical used in BPA-free products exhibits similar endocrine-disrupting effects

March 22, 2016 | Science Daily

Exposure to a substitute chemical often used to replace bisphenol A in plastics can encourage th

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Message from the Director

Contributed by David Constable, Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®

I think I’m still trying to come to terms with how fast the year is going by; we’re finishing the first quarter already and Spring has officially arrived!  We eagerly await the cherry

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Paul Anastas to Keynote: 20th Anniversary GC&E Conference

Many of our readers will have heard of Dr. Paul Anastas, currently of Yale, as an early champion of green chemistry whose passion and drive continue to advance the field. Anastas, then with the EPA was one of the organizers of the first GC&E Conference an

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Hydrogen Production is No Light Matter

Introduction

To make an alkane from an alkene, a carboxylic acid from a nitrile, or a ketone from an alcohol, a chemist will most likely consider hydrogen a key ingredient. What a chemist might not consider, for these and many other cornerstone reactions,

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Call for Applications 2016 GC3 Innovators Internship Program

The Green Chemistry Commerce Council (GC3) is pleased to announce the second annual Innovators Internship Program, which places technically proficient students into sustainability-related summer internships with their member companies. The interns spend 1

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Deinove: Leveraging Biotechnology to Produce Innovative Natural Ingredients

Contributed by Coralie Martin, Communication, Marketing and IR Manager, Deinove; Dennis McGrew, Chief Business Officer, Deinove

More consumers are seeking out products labeled as “natural.” This is especially true in some specific market segments, such as

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Argonne National Laboratory Researchers Pursue Broad Range of Sustainable Materials for Solar, Hydrogen Fuel, and Batteries

Contributed by Peter B. Littlewood, Director of the Argonne National Laboratory

At the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, approximately 1,400 scientists and engineers work to solve some of our greatest energy challenges. Stresse

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CO2-Related Green Chemistry in the Jessop Group

Contributed by Philip Jessop, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

“CO2 is the answer to everything.” That statement started as a joke in my research group but has become more of a philosophy. Society has so much of this compound; it’s one of the

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A New Perspective of Design

Contributed by Amanda Kibbel, Student, University of Oregon.

In fall 2015, I enrolled in the chemistry course, Green Product Design, designated as a science class for non-science majors taught by chemistry professor Julie Haack at the University of Oregon.

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Green Chemistry News Roundup: March 4-11, 2016

United Airlines is flying on biofuels. Here’s why that’s a really big deal.

March 11, 2016 | Washington Post

On Friday, United Airlines will launch a new initiative that uses biofuel to help power flights running between Los Angeles and San Francisco, with

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Green Chemistry and Community: A Professor’s Perspective

Contributed by Meg Sobkowicz Kline, Assistant Professor of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell

I first came across green chemistry as a Ph.D. graduate student of chemical engineering at Colorado School of Mines. Before that I knew I li

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