LINKS TO ARTICLES & REFERENCES

Green Chemistry Articles and Websites

• Article: State of Green Business 2009: Greener Design Comes Out of the Lab
  (Greenbiz.com - published 2/9/09)
• What Can Green Chemistry Do? (CA EPA/Dept of Toxic Substances Control)
• Article: California EPA Releases Final Green Chemistry Framework (Greenbiz.com, 12/18/08)
• Article: California Puts Green Chemistry Under the Microscope (Greenbiz.com, 8/17/08)
• Green Chemistry: Cornerstone to a Sustainable California (UC Center for Occupational & Environmental Health)
  

The California Green Chemistry Initiative website or Science Advisory Panel (SAP) website with more links (190 page report)  

Biobased Legislations & Policy Watch:

Regulations in Europe – REACH Initiatve: A new regulation in the European Union called REACH – Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation of CHemicals (passed into law 12/06) is having a significant impact on trade with and requirements for all chemical materials used within Europe. Final rules came into force in June 2007, requiring that all chemicals of one tonne or more in volume that are manufactured in or imported into the European Union each year be tested for health and safety and registered with a new central European authority. This regulation provides an increasingly enthusiastic market in the EU for WISE products as they clearly have advantages over ordinary petrochemical conpounds. See ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/chemicals/reach or Wikipedia for more.

European Commission Workshop, York University 2004, Towards a European Knowledge-Based Bioeconomy: conclusions on the use of plant biotechnology for the production of industrial, biobased products.

Biobased Lubricants: On March 16, 2006, the USDA issued a final rule (www.ofee.gov/gp/bioproddesig31606.pdf) designating biobased penetrating lubricant and mobile equipment hydraulic fluids as qualifying products. Our formulas are among the first to be listed and are now accepted by federal agencies such as the US military, the National Forest Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency.

US Farm Bill: US Farm Bill H.R. 2646, Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 supports the development of new and emerging technologies to convert crops and into petroleum replacement products (see Section C.3). Sec. 9002 of the 2002 Farm Bill gives preference to “such items composed of the highest percentage of biobased products practicable…”.  Part (g) states that “each Federal agency shall develop a procurement program which will assure that items composed of biobased products will be purchased to the maximum extent practicable,” and “a policy of awarding contract to the vendor offering an item composed of the highest percentage of biobased products practicable.” To download the entire text of the 2002 Farm Bill (691 pages in PDF) click here.

US Legislation for Biobased Products: Several US Federal Government policies encourage the development and use of biobased products and bioenergy, such as

• Executive Order 13134, DEVELOPING AND PROMOTING BIOBASED PRODUCTS AND BIOENERGY, “designed to stimulate the creation and early adoption of technologies needed to make biobased products and bioenergy cost-competitive in large national and international markets.”

• US Federal Executive Order 13101, Greening the Government (http://www.ofee.gov/eo/greening.pdf), estimates that each year cars and trucks in America produce over 1.3 billion gallons of used motor oil, with the improperly disposed oil contaminating our land and our water supplies.  Section 504 (b) “encourages Federal agencies to modify their affirmative procurement program to give consideration to biobased products. Companies producing biobased products continue to work with the General Services Administration and the Defense Logistics Agency to assure their products are included in the various Federal purchasing schedules and databases.”

• Roadmap for Biomass Technologies in the U.S. details the research and development pathways necessary to advance the role of biobased products in the U.S. economy. In addition, on April 11-12, 2006, the Biomass Initiative's Biomass Research and Development Technical Advisory Committee held a Central Region workshop, at Argonne National Laboratory, to update this roadmap. For the full article, go to http://www.biomass.govtools.us/news/DisplayRecentArticle.asp?idarticle=263.

Glossary: Lubricant Industry Terms and Acronyms (PDF, 49Kb)

Oil Analysis Dictionary -- http://www.noria.com/dictionary/default.asp