Breen, Joseph

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This book was edited by Joseph J. Breen and Philip E. Robinson in their private capacity. No official support or endorsement by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is intended or should be inferred. 

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Joseph J. Breen was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, on July 22, 1942. He earned his bachelor s degree from Fairfield University in 1964 and his doctorate in chemistry from Duke University in 1972. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War and for two years in the Peace Corps before accepting an appointment at the EPA in 1979. During his tenure at the EPA, Breen was also an adjunct professor in environmental chemistry at Hood College, in Frederick, Maryland, and at Trinity College and American University in Washington, D.C. 

A founding co-chair, of the Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference, from which this book is derived, was named after Dr. Joseph J. Breen. Joe Breen was an inspiration to people around the world because of the passion and enthusiasm with which he articulated the need and the goals of green chemistry and engineering for sustainability. Joe s premature death in the summer of 1999 is a tragedy to all who knew him and a loss to the causes he championed. This book is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Joseph J. Breen. 

The symposium upon which this book is based was organized Joseph J. Breen and Allan Ford under the auspices of the Division of Environmental Chemistiy, Inc. This book is composed primarily of topics that were presented at sessions of the symposium that were chaired by the editors of this volume. In addition, presentations from another session of the same symposiiun that focused on environmentally benign chemistry research in the international arena, chaired Steven Hassur, have also been included. 

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