US EPA names 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards recipients

On Sept. 26, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced the winners of the 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards at a ceremony held at the Yale Club in New York City as part of Climate Week NYC. The venue and timing with Climate Week are a first for the awards, which are a part of a series of green chemistry events. They include a discussion among sustainability leaders on how sustainable and green chemistry is critical to advancing climate solutions and a first-of-its-kind ACS-Change Chemistry Sustainability Leader Summit for sustainability leaders in business. “I think it’s a pretty good rule of thumb that the less sexy something is, the more environmentally significant it might be,” Meredith Williams, director of the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, joked as she mentioned her colleagues in San Francisco who are working on sanitary sewer overflows. Williams said it’s a lot easier to garner support