Leigh Boerner

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Brianna Barbu |Leigh Boerner

The US National Science Foundation announced the winners of its prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) award earlier this month. In a typical year, the NSF awards around 2,000 students a fellowship, which provides 3 years' worth of financial support for their doctoral or master's studies. But this April, the NSF granted only 1,000 awards.

1 month ago | cen.acs.org | Leigh Boerner

More than 500 chemical manufacturing facilities, power plants, and metal smelters across the US and Puerto Rico qualify for the US Environmental Protection Agency's recently publicized exemptions to the Clean Air Act, according to an analysis released Monday by the advocacy group the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF). This analysis comes on the heels of a request last month from chemical and oil companies to be exempted from certain federal air pollution limits.

2 months ago | pubs.acs.org | Leigh Boerner

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2 months ago | cen.acs.org | Leigh Boerner

Chemistry runs through it If you've even been to the Saint Patrick's Day parade in downtown Chicago, you've witnessed to a colorful tradition, bigger even than the whole green beer thing. On the morning of the parade, members of the Chicago Journeymen Plumbers Local 130 of the United Association union make the Chicago River go green. The tradition of dyeing the river for Saint Patrick's Day goes back to 1962.

2 months ago | cen.acs.org | Leigh Boerner

Credit: Photo by Jason Whitman/NurPhoto via APSome key rules and regulations up for EPA review National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) regulates the emission of toxic air pollutants from stationary sources, such as chemical plants and oil refineries. National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for particulate matter (PM2.5) sets standards for the size of particulate matter allowed to be emitted by several sources, including cars and power plants.