The United States Environmental Protection Agency is pleased to announce the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards to promote the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry.
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Awards, Prizes, and Challenges
Program Overview
These annual awards recognize chemical technologies that incorporate the principles of green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use. Sponsored by EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention in partnership with the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute, the awards aim to reduce pollution at its source by minimizing or eliminating the environmental impacts of chemical processes.
Categories
For the 2025 competition, there are six award categories, including a specific environmental benefit category:
- Focus Area 1: Greener Synthetic Pathways - Designing and implementing synthetic pathways or processes that minimize environmental impact from a lifecycle perspective, using green chemistry and lifecycle metrics.
- Focus Area 2: Chemical and Process Design for Circularity - Designing greener chemicals and materials with viable paths for reclamation and reuse, consistent with green chemistry and engineering principles.
- Focus Area 3: Design of Safer and Degradable Chemicals - Designing chemicals and materials that minimize hazardous substances or improve degradation into non-toxic products.
- Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change - Technology that prevents or reduces greenhouse gas emissions.
- Small Business - Technology developed by a small business in any of the three focus areas.
- Academic - Technology developed by an academic researcher in any of the three focus areas.
Award Information
EPA will notify winners prior to the official public announcement in fall 2025. Award winners will receive a commemorative award and certificates for individuals involved in the technology's development. Winners will also present their technologies at the next ACS Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference.
Eligibility Criteria
- Companies, individuals, academic institutions (including state and tribal universities), non-profit and not-for-profit organizations, and their representatives are eligible.
- Federal government members and U.S. departments, agencies, and laboratories are not eligible, but can be research partners.
- Nominee technologies must be green chemistry technologies with a significant chemistry component, include source reduction, have a significant milestone in development within the past five years, a significant U.S. component, and fit within at least one focus area.
Green Chemistry Technologies
Green chemistry technologies:
- Improve chemical products and processes by reducing negative impacts on health and the environment
- Include all chemical processes: synthesis, catalysis, reaction conditions, separations, and monitoring
- Make improvements at any stage of a chemical’s lifecycle
- Benefit human health and the environment at any point of the technology’s lifecycle
- Incorporate green chemistry at the earliest design stages of a new product or process
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