Green chemistry program

The Pollution Prevention Act was passed to focus on preventing pollution at the source rather than dealing with remediation or capture of pollutants. This led the EPA to start its Green Chemistry Program in 1991. See this chapter, Section 7. 

Within a year of the act s adoption, the EPA had assigned responsibility for its implementation to the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, formed in 1977 to administer the Toxic Substances Control Act, and had begun the first federally funded green chemistry programs. By 1992, the National Science Foundation had also begun funding research on "environmentally benign [chemical] syntheses and processes."... 

American Chemical Society s Education and Intematinal Activities Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency s Green Chemistry Program, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics. Innovations for a Cleaner World . Video. http //www.chemistry.Org/portal/a/c/s/ l/acsdisplay.html DOC=education%5cgreenchem% 5cvideo.html... 

Hutchinson, J. University of Oregon, Green Chemistry Program, http //darkwing.uoregon.edu/ hutchlab/ greenchem/index.html... 

Green Chemistry Green chemistry is the use of chemistry for pollution prevention, i.e., the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. The EPA s Green Chemistry Program promotes the research, development, and implementation of innovative chemical technologies that prevent pollution in both a scientifically sound and a cost-effective manner. 

Over the years, the EPAs Green Chemistry Program has collaborated vhth several organizations internationally. The most important being the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the International Union of... 

Green Chemistry Expert System (GCES) is an expert system developed within the scope of the EPA Green Chemistry program. It includes modules for SMART, reaction databases, chemicals design, solvents database, and literature references for green chemistry. 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, SMART Review for Pollution Prevention, Green Chemistry Program, www.epa.gov/opptintr/greenchemistry/smart.html. 

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