When a bill to ban a common plastic additive in feeding products for young children passed the Assembly on July 1, it marked a milestone in state legislative efforts to regulate bisphenol A.

Invigorating green chemistry is a win-win solution. Americans will become healthier because the materials in their homes, the air, and water will be safe by design, and the chemical industry will be better positioned to compete in world markets that care about chemical safety.

A straightforward and environmentally friendly technique uses carbon dioxide to convert acidic C–H bonds in aromatic compounds into acid and ester groups. The reaction could make aromatic acids and esters more readily available for use in organic synthesis, drug discovery, and other applications.

Researchers at the University of Iowa have discovered that PCBs are present in many more kinds of paint pigment than previously known. While the US EPA knew about some of the contamination, the extent of the problem is a surprise.

When Oregon State University researcher Dr. Kaichang Li pitched an environmentally friendly soy-based adhesive at a wood products industry conference in 2002, most people in the audience had no interest. Attendees were satisfied with the way they had manufactured wood for decades.

A professor of wood science and engineering at Oregon State University who won the 2007 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award has now come up with a vegetable-based, pressure-sensitive glue that is environmentally benign, cheap and doesn't require petrochemicals.

Growing up in India, Madhav Ghanta’s education was shaped by the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy, the world’s deadliest industrial accident, which killed thousands in his home country.

A breakthrough in chemistry may be able to radically reduce the cost of stripping carbon from power plant emissions, potentially making carbon capture and storage a far more realistic climate change solution.

This afternoon, on Day 72 of the Gulf spill, the EPA released the results of its first round of toxicity testing on the chemical dispersants being applied to the crude.

Is green chemistry ready for take-off? Delegates at a big conference on “industrial biotechnology” held near Washington, DC, this week by Bio, the industry’s umbrella organisation, seemed to think so.

A group of Oregon business leaders and researchers are releasing a report Friday on what Oregon should do to bolster its profile in so-called "green chemistry."

The state Assembly passed a bill Thursday to ban the chemical Bisphenol-A from baby bottles and other items that come in contact with small children.

It is important that we remove the plastic waste that is washing ashore on islands in the gyres. But we must turn off the tap of waste flowing into our oceans. Our ocean, the land that washes down to her, and the people that earn their sustenance from the sea, deserve this change.

Two years ago, Andrew Bocarsly reported that he was able to use visible light to transform CO2 into methanol. Since that time, the research has spun off in two directions: an intensive effort to understand the mechanism behind this process and a small company called Liquid Light trying to capitalize on it.

California regulators are taking action to step up pressure on manufacturers to replace toxic chemicals in consumer products with safer alternatives.

In a "green" academic-industry collaboration, researchers have created a safe and scalable continuous-flow reactor system that enables broader use of molecular oxygen in place of environmentally undesirable chromate and permanganate oxidizing reagents currently used for oxidations in pharmaceutical production.

California officials proposed regulations Wednesday that would force manufacturers and importers to reduce the use of toxic chemicals in everyday consumer products.

Environmentally friendlier. Less expensive. Smarter chemistry. These are the types of advantages that characterize the innovations behind the products and processes honored by the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards.

Pharmaceuticals are effective at treating many diseases, but making them can hurt the environment in the process.

With each new model introduction, automakers take pains to point out how much they have done to reduce their vehicles’ negative effects on the environment.