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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge promotes pollution prevention through partnerships with the chemistry community. Through high level recognition and support, the Challenge promotes innovative developments in and uses of green chemistry for pollution prevention. EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics (OPPT) is leading this voluntary partnership program with other EPA offices, other federal agencies, members of the chemical industry, trade associations, scientific organizations, and academia. At its inception, the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge provided both grants and awards; however the current focus of the Challenge is the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards.
Awards
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program is an opportunity for individuals, groups, and organizations to compete for annual awards in recognition of innovations in cleaner, cheaper, smarter chemistry. The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program provides national recognition of outstanding chemical technologies that incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use, and that have been or can be utilized by industry in achieving their pollution prevention goals.
The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Program invites nominations that describe the technical benefits of a green chemistry technology as well as human health and environmental benefits. The Awards Program is open to all individuals, groups, and organizations, both nonprofit and for profit, including academia, government, and industry. The nominated green chemistry technology must have reached a significant milestone within the past five years in the United States (e.g., been researched, demonstrated, implemented, applied, patented, etc.).
Nominations received for the awards are judged by an independent panel of technical experts convened by the American Chemical Society. Typically five awards are given annually to industry and government sponsors, an academic investigator, and a small business.
Grants
Although the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Program does not provide an independent vehicle for green chemistry grants, it has supported the EPA/National Science Foundation (NSF) partnership for environmental research. In the past, "Technology for a Sustainable Environment" grant solicitations have been available through this partnership to addresses the technological and environmental issues of design, synthesis, processing, production, and use of products in continuous and discrete manufacturing industries.