Amyris, Solazyme win EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Award
In the US, the EPA has awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Award to five recipients: Amyris, Professor Shannon Stahl, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Solazyme, QD Vision, Inc, and the Solberg Company. Amyris received the prize in the small business category, and Solazyme received one of three awards for “greener reaction conditions, designing greener chemicals, and greener synthetic pathways”
The prize is awarded by the EPA to landmark green chemistry technologies developed by industrial pioneers and leading scientists that turn climate risk into business opportunities, spurring innovation and economic development. Award winners have significantly reduced the hazards associated with designing, manufacturing, and using chemicals. An independent panel of technical experts convened by the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute formally judged submissions from among scores of nominated technologies and made recommendations to EPA for the 2014 winners.
As the Digest reported, 2013 winners included Richard P. Wool, Ph.D., University of Delaware, Newark, Del., who has created several high-performance materials using bio-based feedstocks, and Cargill, Inc., for developing a soybean oil product for use in high-voltage electric transformers, which is less toxic than formerly used PCBs, less flammable than mineral oil-based transformer fluids, and uses a lower carbon footprint across the entire life cycle of the transformer.
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