National Center For Environmental Research

Science Works Podcast: EPA Funds Development of Laser-Based Carbon Dioxide Sensor
Listen to the third podcast in our Science Works series, and learn how a small business called Bridger Photonics is developing a handheld sensor for the remote detection of carbon dioxide.
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Science Works Podcast: Small Business Grows Green Alternative to Styrofoam
Listen to the second podcast in our Science Works series, and learn how a small business called Ecovative Design is developing an environmentally-friendly foam that could replace polystyrene in packaging and construction materials.
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Science Works Podcast: SBIR Overview
The EPA Small Business Innovation Research program provides funding to small businesses to develop new environmental technologies.
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Five Mass. Companies Get Contracts for Small Business Innovation Research
(Boston, Mass. – March 26, 2009) – Five small businesses in eastern Massachusetts have received a total of $1.125 million from EPA to commercialize innovative technologies that address pressing environmental problems. These Bay State companies were among only eight companies nationwide awarded a total of $1.8 million.
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Grants to Develop Green Technology Go to 3 New England Companies
(Boston, Mass. – Feb. 27, 2009) – Three New England-based companies will share nearly $210,000 from EPA for the research and development of green technology.

The companies are Active Spectrum, Inc. of Amherst, N.H., Fuss & O’Neill of Manchester, Conn. and Ion Signature Technology, Inc. of North Smithfield, R.I. The grants were issued under EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
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Texas company awarded $70,000 for enzyme bioremediation research
(Dallas, Texas – February 20, 2009) Austin-based Agave BioSystems, Inc. has been awarded $70,000 in funding from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a new enzyme engineering system used to remediate contaminated properties. The bioremediation system will require enzymes and the fabrication of functionalized magnetic nanoparticles to improve the catalytic degradation of chemical agents such as pesticides.
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Small Businesses Receive Contracts for Green Technology
(Washington, D.C. – Feb. 20, 2009) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $1.6 million in contracts to 23 small companies to assist their efforts to bring promising new green technologies to market. This award is part of EPA’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, which helps small business throughout America develop technologies that are more protective of our air and water quality and promote alternative sources of energy.
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Small Business in Gainesville, Fl., Wins Aircraft Cabin Air Purification Research Contract
(Atlanta, Ga. – Feb. 5, 2009) - EPA has awarded a $69,795 Phase I contract for aircraft cabin air purification to Sol-gel Solutions, LLC (Sol-gel), in Gainesville, Fl., through its Small Business Innovation Research program. The contract is one of four “proof of concept” awards made in the Southeast to test the feasibility of the companies’ research concepts. If the results of this phase are successful, the company can submit a proposal for a Phase II contract of up to $345,000 to help commercialize the technology.
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Constellation Technology Corporation in Largo, FL wins EPA research contract
(Atlanta, Ga. – February 5, 2009) - Constellation Technology Corporation in Largo, Fla. has been awarded $70,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop an integrated recovery and detection system for online water supply monitoring. The integrated system is designed to efficiently capture and recover pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, parasites, and toxins from water supplies and to detect and identify those pathogens in an automated fashion.
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Innova Tech, Inc. in Morrisville, NC wins EPA research contract
(Atlanta, Ga. – February 5, 2009) - Innova Tech, Inc. in Morrisville, NC has been awarded $70,000 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to develop a new cost-effective emissions control system for restaurant underfired charbroilers. Some of the anticipated benefits of the system are: ease of maintenance/service, increased environmental compliance, reduced operational costs, elimination of contaminated media disposal in landfills and longer service life.
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