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ACC Members, Eastman Chemical Company and Procter and Gamble Company, Win EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Award

ARLINGTON, VA (June 23, 2009) – The American Chemistry Council (ACC) is pleased to announce that Eastman Chemical Company and Procter and Gamble Company received 2009 Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards.  Both companies were honored at a ceremony held in Washington, D.C.
 
Established in 1995, the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards recognize chemical technologies that incorporate the principles of sustainable chemistry into chemical design, manufacture and use.  An independent panel of technical experts convened by the American Chemical Society judged award applications. 
 
ACC member companies have long practiced and promoted the principles of sustainable chemistry and effective product stewardship through their ongoing contributions to the nation’s economic, energy, health, environmental and social progress. Eastman received this award in the Greener Synthetic Pathways category for developing a new method to manufacture cosmetics that saves energy while avoiding high temperatures, strong acids and organic solvents.  Procter and Gamble, in partnership with Cook Composites and Polymers Company, won in the Designing Greener Chemicals category for developing high quality vegetable-based paints that contain less volatile organic compounds, and improve worker safety and air quality by reducing fumes from wet paint. 
 
The products of chemistry make our lives healthier, safer and better, while building a solid foundation for the future.  Through ACC’s Responsible Care® initiative, the chemistry industry has reduced environmental emissions by more than 80 percent and achieved a worker safety record that is four times better than the average of the U.S. manufacturing sector. 
 
Learn more about EPA’s Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award.