Bill to Advance Sustainable Chemistry Gets Traction in House (1)

Legislation providing a framework to advance sustainable chemistry—creating chemicals and chemical processes that are safer for the environment—is gaining traction on Capitol Hill.

A bill (H.R. 2051), sponsored by Reps. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) and John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), would organize current federal efforts to support sustainable chemistry. It would establish a coordinating body under the National Science and Technology Council responsible for creating a standard framework to define sustainable chemistry.

More industries and parts of the supply chain are focused on sustainability, but “we don’t have a common language,” Mitchell Toomey, director of ...