Science & Technology
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The Microbe Hunter - Dr. Hodon Ryu
Profile of EPA inventor - Dr. Hodon Ryu
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Trends Procedural Documentation
Description of procedures that EPA uses to summarizes and publish emission trends annually.
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National Rivers & Streams Assessment 2023-24 Quality Assurance Project Plan
The Quality Assurance Project Plan for the NRSA 2018/19
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FRRCC Meeting Materials October 2015
Presentations for FRRCC Meeting, October 22, 2015
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National Rivers & Streams Assessment 2023-24 Lab Operations Manual
The Lab Operations Manual for the NRSA 2018-19
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National Rivers & Streams Assessment 2023-24 Field Operations Manual Wadeable
The Field Operations Manual for the NRSA 2018-19 Wadeable
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National Rivers & Streams Assessment 2023-24 Field Operations Manual Non-Wadeable
The Field Operations Manual for the NRSA 2018-19 Non-Wadeable
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National Rivers & Streams Assessment 2023-24 Site Evaluation Guidelines
The Site Evaluation Guidelines for the NRSA 2013/14
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2011 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2011 award winner, Genomatica, is developing and commercializing sustainable basic and intermediate chemicals made from renewable feedstocks including sugars, biomass, and syngas.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2009 Academic Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2009 award winner, Professor Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, developed Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization to make polymers with copper catalysts and environmentally friendly reducing agents.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2007 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2007 award winners, Professor Kaichang Li, Columbia Forest Products, and Hercules, developed an adhesive for wood composites based on soy flour instead of resins with formaldehyde.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2005 Greener Reaction Conditions Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2005 award winner, BASF, invented a one-component, urethane acrylate oligomer primer system for automobile refinishing that is UV-curable, has VOCs, and is free of diisocyanates.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2001 Greener Synthetic Pathways Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2001 award winners, Bayer Corporation and Bayer AG, developed a waste-free manufacturing process for sodium iminodisuccinate (Baypure CX), a biodegradable, nontoxic chelating agent.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1998 Designing Greener Chemicals Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1998 award winner, Rohm and Haas, developed CONFIRM, a highly selective, reduced risk insecticide that disrupts the molting process of caterpillar pests in turf and a variety of crops.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2000 Small Business Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2000 award winner, RevTech, developed a process to print top-quality labels directly on glass. Their Envirogluv inks have no heavy metals, have little to no VOCs, and are biodegradable.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 1996 Small Business Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 1996 award winner, Donlar, developed thermal polyaspartate, a nontoxic, biodegradable, biobased polymer made in a highly efficient process for use in agriculture, water treatment, etc.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2009 Small Business Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2009 award winner, Virent, developed a water-based, catalytic method to make gasoline, diesel, or jet fuel from plant sugar, starch, or cellulose that requires little external energy.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2012 Small Business Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2012 award winner, Elevance Renewable Sciences, used Nobel-prize-winning metathesis catalysis to produce high-value difunctional chemicals from renewable feedstocks including natural oils.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2012 Academic Award (Waymouth and Hedrick)
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2012 award winners, Professor Robert M. Waymouth and Dr. James L. Hedrick, developed a broad class of highly active, environmentally benign, metal-free catalysts for synthesizing plastics.
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Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge: 2007 Designing Greener Chemicals Award
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge 2007 award winner, Cargill, developed biobased polyols for polyurethane applications, including flexible foams. Cargill makes BiOH polyols from vegetable oils, not petroleum products.