Contributed by Kimberly Gervase, Executive Director, North Carolina Science Olympiad, and Melissa Pasquinelli, PhD, 2013 Chair of the North Carolina section of ACS.

Thanks to a generous grant from the ACS and the extensive resources available on the Climat

Article by Stacey Adams, Communications and PR Manager, Algenol

65 Nobel laureates recently signed a declaration stating that climate change poses a “threat of comparable magnitude” to nuclear war. And concluded, that “if left unchecked, will lead to whole

Ann Lee-Jeffs, Green Chemistry Program Manager at ACS Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) had an engaging interview with Rajiv Banavali,Chief Technology Officer, Fluorine Products at Honeywell about some of the exemplary new climate change-abating chemist

Contributed by Pietro Tundo, Professor of Organic Chemistry, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Can chemical industry evolve from a producer of CO₂ to a consumer of CO₂ as a carbon source?

The urgency of anthropogenic climate change deserves more research att

Request for Proposal: The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable is seeking to fund a 1-2 year R&D program to address the Roundtable’s initiatives in flow chemistry.  Areas of interest include, but are not limited to photo redox chemistry, photochemistry, and

Contributed by Keith Peterman, Professor of Chemistry, York College of Pennsylvania

Climate change is the defining sustainability issue of our time.  Today’s youth are the first generation to feel the adverse impacts of climate change. And, in the words o

Contributed by Clara Piccirillo, PhD, Decoded Science

Researchers from York University developed a material – Starbon^® – which can selectively recover precious metals such as gold, palladium, and platinum.The material is sustainable, being made from a rene

Contributed by Clara Piccirillo, PhD, Decoded Science

Professor Glenn Lipscomb presented research at the 19th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference July 14-16th on the future challenges of use of membranes for separation processes in industrial

Contributed by Clara Piccirillo, PhD, Decoded Science

Plastic made from plant sugars that you can break down with light and reuse over and over again?

That’s the subject of new research presented at this year’s Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference.

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Innovative technologies tackle climate change, water, and chemical issues

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is recognizing landmark green chemistry technologies developed by industrial pioneers and leading scientists that turn climate risk and

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

It’s hard to believe that we are only a few weeks away from the 19th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference, to be held in N. Bethesda, MD., July 14th through the 16th. Putti

When consumers think about chemistry and chemicals, more often than not household items such as cleaning supplies and personal care products are the first to come to mind. Chemical formulators are the chemists who identify the functions a product needs to

Professors often apply for grants to pursue green chemistry research that could lead to significant environmental benefits and have immediate application within the pharmaceutical industry. The ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable has awarded five of such gr

You are here. The red dot at the edge of a map. You’re not quite sure where you’re going and there’s no clear path to get to the yet unknown destination. The first step, now, is to visualize where you’d like to go. Then you can plan, draw the roads, and w

Contributed by Michel Philippe, PhD Senior Research Associate Sustainable Transformations Manager L’ORÉAL Research & Innovation

A STRONG COMMITMENT FOR OVER 10 YEARS

L’Oréal was the first corporation in the cosmetics industry to integrate Green Chemistry pr