Latest Green chemistry Stories

NEW YORK, Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Today the nation's first nonprofit dedicated to using the Cradle to Cradle® approach to certify products unveiled its new name, along with a major commitment, at the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Annual Meeting in New York. The Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute (the Institute), formerly called the Green Products Innovation Institute, announced today at CGI that it will train at least 100 assessors and certify 1,000 products by 2015 in an...

DALLAS, Texas, August 31, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report, "Renewable Chemicals Market: Winning Imperatives & Market Forecast" ( http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/renewable-chemical-274.html) published by MarketsandMarkets (http://www.marketsandmarkets.com), the renewable chemicals market is expected to grow at an estimated CAGR of 11.66% from 2010 to 2015 and is expected to reach to $67.13 billion in 2015. Renewable ethanol is the most...

With laws, government regulations, and funding priorities continuing to exert a broad impact on science, a group of graduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is holding a special symposium Aug. 23 during the American Chemical Society (ACS) 240th National Meeting and Exhibition here to familiarize future scientists with the unfamiliar realm of public policy."Public policy is the course of action that government agencies take in regard to a particular issue or...

PRINCETON, N.J., July 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Informex show management announced today the opening of Informex Latin America registration and made public the event's conference program. Informex, the leading specialty chemical tradeshow for buyers and sellers of high-value chemistry across a broad range of applications, will host the inaugural Informex Latin America show on August 23-24, 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil at the Amcham Convention Center. The new Informex Latin America event will include...

SAN FRANCISCO, May 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Building on California's groundbreaking innovation and environmental leadership, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger today joined academic, business, government, and environmental leaders at Google's headquarters in Mountain View to announce the formation of the nation's first non-profit dedicated to developing comprehensive metrics and standards for everyday products that are safe and healthy for our children, ourselves and the world in which we live. Named...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One of the world's foremost protocols for evaluating and improving products for a multi-attribute conception of sustainable design, developed by MBDC (McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry), Cradle to Cradle® Certification will be issued in the United States by the new Green Products Innovation Institute ("Institute"), a non-profit organization based in California focused on transforming the making and consumption of things into a...

Choosing "greener" household cleaners, computers, and other consumer products could become as easy as reading a product's label thanks to a movement under way to develop universal guidelines for determining whether chemical products and chemical processes are environmentally friendly. That's the topic of an article in Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN), ACS' weekly newsmagazine.C&EN Senior Correspondent Stephen Ritter notes that chemical companies are eager to produce...

Linked to Human Health Problems, Chemicals Largely Untested, Unregulated WASHINGTON, April 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the eve of legislation slated to be introduced this month to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), almost two dozen organizations representing health care professionals, along with health sector businesses sent letters to Congress urging the passage of strong reform of our nation's chemical regulatory system. Health Care Without Harm coordinated the letters...

A Queen's University chemistry professor has invented a special solvent that may make cooking oil production more environmentally friendly.Philip Jessop, Canada Research Chair in Green Chemistry, has created a solvent that "“ when combined with carbon dioxide "“ extracts oil from soybeans. Industries currently make cooking oils using hexane, a cheap, flammable solvent that is a neurotoxin and creates smog. The process also involves distillation, which uses large amounts of...

Scientific advances in a rapidly emerging field termed "green chemistry" offer the brightest promise for guiding the American economy into a new era of sustainability, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's top R&D official said yesterday.Paul T. Anastas, Ph.D., assistant administrator for the EPA's Office of Research and Development, described that future epoch as one in which people use water, air, energy, and other resources in ways that meet current needs without...