2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Award

The Green Chemistry Challenge Awards promote the environmental and economic benefits of developing and using novel green chemistry. Donor Name: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency State: All States County: All Counties Type of Grant: Awards and Prizes Deadline: 12/13/2024 Size of the Grant: Not Available Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned Details: These prestigious annual awards recognize chemical technologies that incorporate green chemistry into chemical design, manufacture, and use. The 2025 Awards will also recognize green chemical technologies that address chemical and process design for circularity and climate change. EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention sponsors the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards in partnership with the American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute and other members of the chemical community.  For the 2025 competition, there are six award categories, with a specific environmental benefit category to recognize a green chemistry technology that can prevent or reduce greenhouse gas emissions: Focus Area 1: Greener Synthetic Pathways. Focus Area 2: Chemical and Process Design for Circularity. Focus Area 3: Design of Safer and Degradable Chemicals. Specific Environmental Benefit: Climate Change (for a technology in any of the three focus areas that can prevent or reduce greenhouse gas emissions). Small Business (for a technology in any of the three focus areas developed by a small business). Academic (for a technology in any of the three focus areas developed by an academic researcher). Eligibility Criteria  To be eligible for an award, a nominated technology must meet the scope of the Green Chemistry Challenge Awards program by meeting each of these six criteria: It must be a green chemistry technology with a significant chemistry component. It must include source reduction. Its sponsor must be an eligible entity. It must have a significant milestone in its development within the past five years. It must have a significant U.S. component. It must fit within at least one of the three focus areas of the program. For more information, visit EPA.