The entire idea the Republican Party could eliminate and destroy environmental protections as some kind of opportunity for the growth of business is pure unadulterated nonsense.
The EPA is vital to the quality of life of the American people. There is no removing the EPA. I can understand how the petroleum industry is frustrated with the entire FUTURE movement within the USA; they are no longer wanted in the American landscape. Do you know ethanol is less expensive than regular unleaded in the Midwest? Where are all the "Flex Fuel" vehicles?
E85 is $1.80 per gallon (click here)
E15 is $2.17 per gallon
E10 is $2.27 per gallon
No ethanol is $2.64 a gallon of 87 octane (regular unleaded)
There is no reason to have the President of Exxon Mobile as a Secretary of State. There is no need for any heavy polluting industry, including and especially greenhouse gases, to be given a leg up to plow through some kind of idea that they are still needed. They aren't.
The USA is coming of age. All the gamesmanship of political hacks, including Donald Trump, is laughable. The USA has accepted the challenge of the future and is getting the job done. It is time for the "The Very Old Guard" to fade into the sunset and soon.
Many leaders over the years, including President Obama, have stated there is an economy in the ways of the future, including green chemistry. It is the truth and leaders from every walk of life, except politics, have accepted that.
It is time to ride into the sunset. Bye, bye. Everyone say bye, bye to the old order. Bye. Bye, bye.
Sunday, January 08, 2017
By Scott Learn
Gov. John Kitzhaber (click here) signed an executive order today designed to boost the prospects for "green chemistry" in Oregon, including requirements to have state agencies favor the least-toxic products in purchasing.
The order -- backed by the Oregon Environmental Council and green chemistry leaders in business and academia -- requires state agencies to begin a pilot program for purchasing less toxic cleaning products by the end of this year.
It also calls for the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Administrative Services to complete a plan by July 1, 2013, for revising state purchasing guidelines on other products, such as electronics, furniture and building materials. The order does not specify a timeline for implementing the new guidelines....
pHurity green (click here)
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pHurity green (click here)
Store Locator (click here)
December 27, 2010
Michigan-based company (click here) formulates and sells green cleaning and personal care products.
The first-ever Michigan Green Chemistry Governor’s Award for small business has been presented to pHurity, Inc., which is woman-owned and operated by Barbara Kovach of Franklin, Michigan. Kovach accepted the award this week during the second annual Michigan Green Chemistry Conference in Lansing.
Founded in 2007, pHurity, Inc. is a formulator of plant-based, renewable and biodegradable green cleaning and personal care products that are manufactured in Auburn Hills and currently sold in more than 75 specialty grocery and health stores throughout Michigan.
“Our first several months were spent in intensive research and product formulation to ensure that every ingredient was analyzed and verified before we introduced pHurity products to the market in late 2008,” said Kovach, an intellectual property attorney who founded the company with partner Tim Darwish....
So, what is "Green Chemistry?" What are the products. "Make this real, right?"
Making "Green Chemistry" real is less about the very product on the shelf for consumers, but, the practice of manufacturing that provides an environmentally cleaner, higher morality and future centric industry. The best news is it works.
Green Manufacturing is also known by plethora of different names: Clean Gmanufacturing, environmentally conscious manufacturing, environmentally benign manufacturing, environmentally responsible manufacturing and Sustainable manufacturing. Irrespective of the various acronyms, the primary goal remains the same - designing and delivering products that minimize negative effects on the environment through their production, use, and disposal....
"Green Chemistry" has participants from across the spectrum; from private entrepreneurs to universities and industry.
The mission of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute® (ACS GCI) is to catalyze and enable the implementation of green chemistry and engineering throughout the global chemical enterprise....
...The ACS GCI Governing Board is comprised of members from government, industry, and academia to reflect a broad set of environmental interests and capabilities. The board convenes biannually and assists the Institute in accomplishing its strategic goals....
Dr. Kent Voorhees, Chair
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Professor, Department of Chemistry and Geochemistry, Colorado School of Mines
Dr. William CarrolVice President for Industry Issues
Occidental Chemical Corporation
Occidental Chemical Corporation
Dr. Pat ConfaloneACS Board of Directors
Vice President, DuPont Global R&D
Vice President, DuPont Global R&D
Dr. Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
CEO
American Chemical Society
CEO
American Chemical Society
Dr. David Constable
Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®
American Chemical Society
Director, ACS Green Chemistry Institute®
American Chemical Society
Dr. Concepcíon Jiménez-González
Head of Engagement, Planning, Environment, Health & Safety
Analysis and Reporting
GlaxoSmithKline
Head of Engagement, Planning, Environment, Health & Safety
Analysis and Reporting
GlaxoSmithKline
Dr. Lauren Heine
Executive Director
Northwest Green Chemistry
Executive Director
Northwest Green Chemistry
Dr. Philip Jessop
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Queen’s University
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Queen’s University
Mr. Micheal Kirschner
President
Design Chain Associates, LLC
President
Design Chain Associates, LLC
Mr. David C. Long
Environmental Sustainability Solutions, LLC
Environmental Sustainability Solutions, LLC
Mr. John Frazier, Advisor
Sr. Technical Director
Hohenstein Institute America
Sr. Technical Director
Hohenstein Institute America
Dr. James E. Hutchison, Advisor
Lokey-Harrington Chair in Chemistry
University of Oregon
Lokey-Harrington Chair in Chemistry
University of Oregon
Dr. Nina I. McClelland, Advisor
Provost
The University of Toledo
Provost
The University of Toledo
Anthony M. Noce, Advisor
Principal Consultant
Operations Risk & Compliance
Principal Consultant
Operations Risk & Compliance
Dr. Martyn Poliakoff, Advisor
Research Professor of Chemistry
University of Nottingham
Research Professor of Chemistry
University of Nottingham
Dr. Anne P. Wallin, Advisor
Retired
The Dow Chemical Company
Retired
The Dow Chemical Company
This is an article written by Joseph A. Miller, Jr. for the American Chemical Society (ACS) appearing in "Chemical Innovation," Vol. 30, No. 9, September 30, 2000.
What I find so interesting about this article is the way the ACS self monitors and polices it's direction.
I found this timeline more than interesting. It shows an industry that developed out of necessity in national defense and otherwise to an industry on the verge of improving lives to the point of carefree living.
The ACS sees the birth of Green Chemistry and it's continued growth to bring about a culture of concern for the well being of Earth and it's people.
...Biotechnology—past and futuren (click here)
Using this definition, we have seen glimpses of biotechnology-based products going back to the 19th century. The archetype of such a scientific contribution was Louis Pasteur’s novel insistence that each fermentation process can be traced to a specific living microorganism. This inspired changes in brewing practices to ensure healthy conditions for the growth of these microorganisms—practices that are used to this day.
The biotechnology industry is unusual in that it is defined, not by a set of products, but by a set of enabling technologies, which are used by a broad array of companies. The thrust of this collection of technologies is to apply DNA sequencing data to engineer the metabolism of microorganisms or green plants to create new products or processes.
The growth of this industry is a unique story, yet it rests on foundations common to other segments of American industry. Years of research continue to provide a knowledge base unequaled in the world, and the domestic capital market provides the ability to transform this knowledge into unique products and processes for markets around the world.
The future, however, holds many competitive challenges for this industry. In the quarter century since the development of recombinant DNA technologies, thousands of new biotechnology firms have emerged in the United States. Dozens of new products have reached the medical market, and several hundred are in human clinical trials. The market for such products is expected to grow from $7.6 billion in 1996 to more than $24 billion by 2006. Similarly, the market for agriculture biotech products is expected to increase from $300 million to $1.8 billion in the same period. All of this growth is driven by R&D spending of more than $10 billion per year....
Agricultural practices have evolved over the decades to end phosphorus.
There are always competing interests in the USA by the simple fact this is an economy established with Wall Street capitalism. What is necessary in the 21st Century is clearer and more moral goals that satisfy the USA economic dynamics, but, removes cost of pollution and danger to lives.
Lake Erie and eutrophication is a story that covers four decades of time. The phosphorus from agricultural runoff took some time to reach tolerable levels.
Slide presentation that includes Lake Erie (click here).
The point to this is to reassure the need for a better method of providing products to the American consumer and to international markets.
Green Chemistry does that. Decades have gone by since the words of Rachel Carson captured the American conscience. It is time to realize these new ideas make a great deal of sense. Below is the 2016 Presidential Green Energy Challenge. It was not won by a single scientist in a university that Senator John McCain might call "Pork Barrel Spending" (click here); it was a Wall Street company that took the award.
"Dow Agrosciences LLC" (click here)
Lake Erie and eutrophication is a story that covers four decades of time. The phosphorus from agricultural runoff took some time to reach tolerable levels.
Slide presentation that includes Lake Erie (click here).
The point to this is to reassure the need for a better method of providing products to the American consumer and to international markets.
Green Chemistry does that. Decades have gone by since the words of Rachel Carson captured the American conscience. It is time to realize these new ideas make a great deal of sense. Below is the 2016 Presidential Green Energy Challenge. It was not won by a single scientist in a university that Senator John McCain might call "Pork Barrel Spending" (click here); it was a Wall Street company that took the award.
"Dow Agrosciences LLC" (click here)
Summary of Technology:
The demand for higher crop yields and agricultural productivity is ever increasing, and so are concerns for the negative impacts on the environment caused by agricultural activities. Human activities related to farming account for a significant percentage of nitrate in ground and surface waters as well as nitrous oxide emissions. An estimated 75 percent of all nitrous oxide emissions, for example, come from agricultural activities such as applied nitrogen fertilizers and manures.
Crop genetics and precision application methods have improved the efficiency of applied nitrogen fertilizers, but losses to the environment are still significant after soil bacteria quickly convert nitrogen from the applied urea or ammoniacal form to nitrate. In the nitrate form, nitrogen fertilizer is susceptible to losses through leaching or as emissions in the form of nitrous oxide. Furthermore, nitrate fertilizer that leaches out of a plant’s root zone is no longer available to provide nutrients to the crop.
Scientists at The Dow Chemical Company discovered a powerful nitrification inhibitor that can inhibit soil bacteria from rapidly converting nitrogen in the ammoniacal form to nitrate, thereby retaining more nitrogen in the more stable ammoniacal form. By keeping nitrogen in the root zone for a longer period during the season, Dow’s nitrogen stabilizers improve Nitrogen Use Efficiency and reduce nitrogen loss through leaching and nitrous oxide emissions. N-Serve® was the first commercial product introduced by Dow in 1974, but it is only suitable for use with anhydrous ammonia fertilizer applications due to the limitations of its physical-chemical properties....
June 22, 2014
By Jonathan H. Alder
On the morning of June 22, 1969, (click here) oil and debris that had collected on the surface of the Cuyahoga River as wound its way through Cleveland caught fire. The story attracted national attention, and was featured in a report on the nation’s environmental problems in the August 1 Time magazine. The fire illustrated just how bad the nation’s environmental problems had become by 1969. As then-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson commented in 2011, the fire was evidence of “the almost unimaginable health and environmental threats” from water pollution of the time. After all, as one environmental activist put it, “when rivers are on fire, you know things are bad.”...
By Jonathan H. Alder
On the morning of June 22, 1969, (click here) oil and debris that had collected on the surface of the Cuyahoga River as wound its way through Cleveland caught fire. The story attracted national attention, and was featured in a report on the nation’s environmental problems in the August 1 Time magazine. The fire illustrated just how bad the nation’s environmental problems had become by 1969. As then-Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson commented in 2011, the fire was evidence of “the almost unimaginable health and environmental threats” from water pollution of the time. After all, as one environmental activist put it, “when rivers are on fire, you know things are bad.”...
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),(click here) an international body of over 30 industrialized countries, held meetings through the 1980s addressing environmental concerns. They made a series of international recommendations which focused on a co-operative change in existing chemical processes and pollution prevention.
The OECD has it's roots as early as 1960. It is primarily a Western Culture organization. The idea pollution was something that drained a country's resources rather than grew an economy was always a focus to their work. There are currently 35 countries that have ratified the organization as part of their government infrastructure.
This international measure and other US Government agencies such as the EPA started to appear with government infrastructure. There were profound reasons for their beginnings:
The Cuyahoga River is a primary example of what occurs with industry when it is unregulated.
The Cuyahoga River is a primary example of what occurs with industry when it is unregulated.
Green Chemistry has been growing out of necessity since the 1960s.
Our environmental legacy in the USA may have started with Rachel Carson, but, was also reinforced by tragedy along the way.
Love Canal is an aborted canal project (click here) branching off of the Niagara River about four miles south of Niagara Falls. It is also the name of a fifteen-acre, working-class neighborhood of around 800 single-family homes built directly adjacent to the canal. From 1942 to 1953, the Hooker Chemical Company, with government sanction, began using the partially dug canal as a chemical waste dump. At the end of this period, the contents of the canal consisted of around 21,000 tons of toxic chemicals, including at least twelve that are known carcinogens (halogenated organics, chlorobenzenes, and dioxin among them). Hooker capped the 16-acre hazardous waste landfill in clay and sold the land to the Niagara Falls School Board, attempting to absolve itself of any future liability by including a warning in the property deed.
Public awareness of the disaster unfolded in the late 1970s when investigative newspaper coverage and grassroots door-to-door health surveys began to reveal a series of inexplicable illnesses—epilepsy, asthma, migraines, and nephrosis—and abnormally high rates of birth defects and miscarriages in the Love Canal neighborhood. As it turns out, consecutive wet winters in the late 1970s raised the water table and caused the chemicals to leach (via underground swales and a sewer system that drained into nearby creeks) into the basements and yards of neighborhood residents, as well as into the playground of the elementary school built directly over the canal. After a series of frustrating encounters with apathetic NYS officials, who were slow to act but quick to dismiss the activists (most of whom were working-class women who lived in the neighborhood) as a collection of hysterical housewives, President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency in 1978 and had the federal government relocate 239 families. This left 700 families who federal officials viewed as being at insufficient risk to warrant relocation, even though tests conducted by the NYS Department of Health revealed that toxic substances were leaching into their homes. After another hard battle, activists forced Carter to declare a second state of emergency in 1981, during which the remaining families were relocated. The total cost for relocation of all the families was $17 million....
The NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) (click here) grew out of the deadly and debilitating tragedy of the Love Canal.
Public awareness of the disaster unfolded in the late 1970s when investigative newspaper coverage and grassroots door-to-door health surveys began to reveal a series of inexplicable illnesses—epilepsy, asthma, migraines, and nephrosis—and abnormally high rates of birth defects and miscarriages in the Love Canal neighborhood. As it turns out, consecutive wet winters in the late 1970s raised the water table and caused the chemicals to leach (via underground swales and a sewer system that drained into nearby creeks) into the basements and yards of neighborhood residents, as well as into the playground of the elementary school built directly over the canal. After a series of frustrating encounters with apathetic NYS officials, who were slow to act but quick to dismiss the activists (most of whom were working-class women who lived in the neighborhood) as a collection of hysterical housewives, President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency in 1978 and had the federal government relocate 239 families. This left 700 families who federal officials viewed as being at insufficient risk to warrant relocation, even though tests conducted by the NYS Department of Health revealed that toxic substances were leaching into their homes. After another hard battle, activists forced Carter to declare a second state of emergency in 1981, during which the remaining families were relocated. The total cost for relocation of all the families was $17 million....The NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) (click here) grew out of the deadly and debilitating tragedy of the Love Canal.
Where does someone become educated to Green Chemistry?
Green Chemistry programs have been instituted in nearly half of the USA's universities and colleges.
- University of Alabama; Center for Green Manufacturing
Research center focused on ionic liquids, biorenewables, novel separation strategies and more.
Arkansas
- Hendrix College; Toad Suck Institute for Green Organic Chemistry
Green chemistry incorporated into bachelor's curriculum
California
- University of California, Berkeley; The Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry
Innovative courses for chemistry and engineering majors and nonmajors, green labs, and applied research - California Institute of Technology
Courses focusing on global environmental issues and solutions and biocatalysis research...
Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia and Washington.
Green chemistry:
- Prevents pollution at the molecular level
- Is a philosophy that applies to all areas of chemistry, not a single discipline of chemistry
- Applies innovative scientific solutions to real-world environmental problems
- Results in source reduction because it prevents the generation of pollution
- Reduces the negative impacts of chemical products and processes on human health and the environment
- Lessens and sometimes eliminates hazard from existing products and processes
- Designs chemical products and processes to reduce their intrinsic hazards
The fact that some universities have not applied "Green Chemistry" to their curriculum doesn't mean they won't in the future.
"Green Chemistry" is a revolution within the USA's demand for better products.
Green chemistry is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the generation of hazardous substances. EPA's efforts to speed the adoption of this revolutionary and diverse discipline have led to significant environmental benefits, innovation and a strengthened economy.
"Little Green" written and performed by Joni Mitchell
Born with the moon in Cancer
Choose her a name she'll answer too
Call her green and the winters can not fade her
Call her green for the children who have made her little, green
Be a gypsy dancer
Choose her a name she'll answer too
Call her green and the winters can not fade her
Call her green for the children who have made her little, green
Be a gypsy dancer
He went to California
Hearing that everything's warmer there
So you write him a letter, say, "her eyes are blue"
He sends you a poem and she's lost to you
Little, green, he's a non-comformer
Hearing that everything's warmer there
So you write him a letter, say, "her eyes are blue"
He sends you a poem and she's lost to you
Little, green, he's a non-comformer
Just a little green
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the night's when the Northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes and sometimes
There'll be sorrow
Like the color when the spring is born
There'll be crocuses to bring to school tomorrow
Just a little green
Like the night's when the Northern lights perform
There'll be icicles and birthday clothes and sometimes
There'll be sorrow
Child with a child pretending
Weary of lies you're sending home
So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and you're sorry but you're not ashamed, little green
Have a happy ending
Weary of lies you're sending home
So you sign all the papers in the family name
You're sad and you're sorry but you're not ashamed, little green
Have a happy ending
The problem with conservative as it always has been is it's willingness to see life in little contrast.
Conservatism has brought 3 strikes and in laws, mandatory sentencing and most of all a minority with higher incarceration rates than any other in the world.
January 8, 2016
By Matt Appuzo
Mr. Sessions said that police officers (click here) faced unfair criticism for their use of force. He believes that legal action by the Justice Department has discouraged officers from doing their jobs....
The conservatism of 2001 removed compassion from legislative measures. It is not about people anymore, it is about crony politics and Wall Street. The conservatism of the 21st Century is ineffective and regressive.
The Democrats rebuilt the USA after 2008 and now the Republicans are going to remove regulations and send the economy into a negative spiral with mounting national debt because of increased deficits.
The only way of stabilizing the USA is to demand freedom of local governance and protection of local economies. Right wing extremism in the Attorney General's office won't accomplish that.
It would not surprise me if the USA is brought up on human rights violations.
January 8, 2016
By Matt Appuzo
Mr. Sessions said that police officers (click here) faced unfair criticism for their use of force. He believes that legal action by the Justice Department has discouraged officers from doing their jobs....
The conservatism of 2001 removed compassion from legislative measures. It is not about people anymore, it is about crony politics and Wall Street. The conservatism of the 21st Century is ineffective and regressive.
The Democrats rebuilt the USA after 2008 and now the Republicans are going to remove regulations and send the economy into a negative spiral with mounting national debt because of increased deficits.
The only way of stabilizing the USA is to demand freedom of local governance and protection of local economies. Right wing extremism in the Attorney General's office won't accomplish that.
It would not surprise me if the USA is brought up on human rights violations.
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