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EPA Honors Recipients of 2008 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

Release Date: 06/24/2008
Contact Information: Dale Kemery, (202) 564-4355 / kemery.dale@epa.gov

(6/24/08) For the 13th straight year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is recognizing chemical technologies developed by leading researchers and industrial innovators that are making significant contributions to pollution prevention in the United States. The awards will be given out this evening, June 24, at the awards ceremony in Washington, D.C.

The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards are given in five categories: Academic, Small Business, Greener Synthetic Pathways, Greener Reaction Conditions and Designing Greener Chemicals. The 2008 award-winner technologies are:

• A novel method to make complex molecules cleanly and efficiently developed by Professors Robert E. Maleczka, Jr. and Milton R. Smith, III of Michigan State University, Lansing, Mich.
• A safe way to harness the reactivity of alkali metals developed by SiGNa Chemistry, Inc. of New York, N.Y.
• Biobased resins for toner ink that are easily removed during paper recycling developed by Battelle of Columbus, Ohio
• A three-part system to monitor and treat cooling water developed by Nalco Company of Naperville, Ill.
• A second-generation green chemistry pesticide developed by Dow AgroSciences of Indianapolis, Ind.