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EPA Calls for Nominations for 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
WASHINGTON — Today, Aug. 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
announced it is now accepting nominations for the 2025 Green Chemistry
Challenge Awards from companies or institutions that have developed a new
green chemistry process or product that helps protect human health and the
environment. EPA’s efforts to speed the adoption of this revolutionary and
diverse discipline have led to significant environmental benefits, innovation
and a strengthened economy. The awards program highlights green chemistry that
helps prevent pollution before it is even created, making it a preferred
approach for providing solutions to some of the nation’s most significant
environmental challenges.
“Green chemistry is an important way to create products that prevent waste
and increase resource efficiency. In recent years, we’ve seen tremendous
innovation in transforming how we can more effectively use renewable
feedstock, agricultural waste and bio-based proteins,” said EPA Office of
Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention Deputy Assistant Administrator for
Pollution Prevention Jennie Romer. “The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards
spotlight cutting edge technologies and show us how green chemistry will
continue to protect our environment and ensure we all have cleaner air and
water.”
The 2025 competition includes six award categories, including a category to
recognize green chemistry technology that can prevent or reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and a category that debuted last year to emphasize circularity
through the design of greener chemicals and materials that can be continuously
reused or remanufactured – thereby reducing waste.
Nominations are due to EPA by Dec. 13, 2024. An independent panel of technical
experts convened by the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute
will formally judge the 2025 nominations and make recommendations to EPA for
the 2025 winners. EPA anticipates announcing awards to outstanding green
chemistry technologies in fall 2025.
Additionally, EPA is announcing a webinar to be held on Wednesday, Oct. 9,
2024, from 2-3 p.m. ET, to educate stakeholders on the Green Chemistry
Challenge Awards and the nomination process. Register for the webinar.
Since the inception of the awards more than a quarter century ago, EPA has
received more than 1,800 nominations and presented awards for 139 technologies
that decrease hazardous chemicals and resources, reduce costs, protect human
health and spur economic growth. Previous winners of the awards include a
company that developed a textile dying process that dramatically reduces the
use of water, energy, dyes and chemicals compared to traditional dyeing
methods, and a university professor who designed a way to refine agricultural
waste into materials like lithium-ion batteries which are important for the
transition to green energy.
Winning technologies are responsible for annually reducing the use or
generation of hundreds of millions of pounds of hazardous chemicals, saving
billions of gallons of water and eliminating billions of pounds of carbon
dioxide equivalents.
More information on past award winners and how to submit entries can be found
on EPA’s Green Chemistry website.
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