Co-sponsored by ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering in partnership with the ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry

Nomination Deadline: August 1, 2016

The inaugural ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering Lectureship awards will recognize an

The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable (GCIPR) is pleased to be releasing a set of eight Reagent Guides. Like the Roundtable’s Solvent Selection Guide, which helps chemists choose better solvents, these eight guides will serve as a mechanism for scientists

For its fourth year, the ACS GCI held a business plan competition as part of the 20th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference. There were four semi-finalists, all of which convened in Portland, OR to pitch their companies for the winning title a

Contributed by Michael Cann, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, The University of Scranton

Twenty years ago this July I was reading the abstracts for the fall 1996 ACS meeting in Orlando.  I came across two abstracts “The Green Chemistry Challenge” and

Two U.S.-based students have received the 2016 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award, presented by the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI). Each recipient receives $1,000 USD. The award was formally presented at the 20th annual Green

Albemarle (ALB) Acclaimed for Green AlkyClean Technology

June 15, 2016 | Yahoo

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with the American Chemical Society, presented Albemarle Corporation ALB and its technology partner, Chicago Bridge & I

Contributed by Al Kaziunas and Rolf Schlake of Applied Separations

Organic solvents used in chemical processes have enormous environmental and economic costs. They contribute to health problems, adversely impact the environment, are flammable, contribute t

Whoa! Congress Agrees on Chemical Safety

June 9, 2016 | Courier Journal

This week, there's a new chemical safety bill that President Obama is expected to sign, and believe it or not, it was a product of Republicans and Democrats alike, as well as environmen

The Golden Age of Green Chemistry

June 2, 2016 | Lab News

As more and more laboratories and companies embrace the principles of green chemistry, chemists and engineers can make an enormous difference to humanity’s quality of life.

Precious Metals: A Resour

Contributed by Faiza Rasheed, Department of Plant Breeding, The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Alnarp, Sweden

With the much advocated issue related to limited fossil fuel resources in future and the deleterious impacts of fossil fuel derived

The GC&E Business Plan Competition is a unique program in the green chemistry community. The goal of the competition is to support and train early-stage, pre-revenue entrepreneurs to move forward with their green chemistry and engineering ideas. Today we

Sustainable Chemistry at Industrial Technologies

May 27th, 2016 | Suschem

Industrial Technologies 2016 will be the largest networking conference in the field of new production technologies, materials, nanotechnology, biotechnology and digital technologies i

Dr. Yu is a keynote speaker at the 20th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference in Portland, Oregon. As a chemist at the Scripps Research Institute, his work has focused on discovery and rational design of new reactions using C-H activation.

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Global Bioenergies is one of the few companies in the world and the only one in Europe to develop a process to convert renewable resources into hydrocarbons through fermentation. The company has focused initially on the production of isobutene, one of the

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

In less than a month we’ll be in Portland, OR, for the 20th Annual GC&E Conference and I hope many of you have made plans to attend.  We are very grateful to our Organizing Committee,