EPA Announces 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Award to PhoSul LLC of Sugar City, Idaho
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the 2024 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards for new and innovative green chemistry technologies. This year’s winners have developed chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the generation and use of hazardous substances, use less energy, and are more sustainable.
PhoSul LLC, of Sugar City, Idaho, received the Green Chemistry Challenge Award for making phosphate fertilizer that avoids hazardous chemicals and waste emissions associated with traditional phosphate fertilizer production, such as strong acids, heavy metals, and radioactive materials.
“I’m proud to recognize this year’s Idaho-based Green Chemistry Challenge Award winner PhoSul LLC,” said EPA Region 10 Administrator Casey Sixkiller. “Thanks to this company’s fertilizer production innovations, we’re finding new ways to prevent pollution and protect human health while supporting our farming economy.”
An independent panel of technical experts convened by the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute formally judged the 2024 submissions and made recommendations to EPA. The winners are being recognized at a ceremony today in New York, NY as part of Climate Week NYC.
EPA is currently accepting nominations for the 2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards, from companies or institutions that have developed a new green chemistry process or product that helps protect human health and the environment. Nominations are due to EPA by Friday, Dec. 13, 2024.
Since the inception of the awards more than a quarter century ago, EPA has presented awards to 144 technologies that decrease hazardous chemicals and resources, reduce costs and protect public health. Winning technologies are responsible for reducing the use or generation of nearly one billion pounds of hazardous chemicals, saving over 20 billion gallons of water, and eliminating nearly eight billion pounds of carbon dioxide equivalents released to the air.
Visit EPA online to learn more about the 2024 winners and EPA’s Green Chemistry Challenge.