Green Chemistry Challenge Award Categories
For the 2025 competition, there are six awards categories, with a specific environmental benefit category to recognize 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)
EPA usually presents one Green Chemistry Challenge Award in each award category.
*A small business for purposes of this award must have annual sales of less than $40 million, including all domestic and foreign sales by the company, its subsidiaries, and its parent company.
Green Chemistry Challenge Nomination and Selection Process
2025 Green Chemistry Challenge Awards Nomination Package (pdf) (589.64 KB)