Jay Rockefeller: “I am proud to join my friend Senator Snowe and our colleagues Senator Pryor, Senator Collins, and Senator Kerry in…”

“I am proud to join my friend Senator Snowe and our colleagues Senator Pryor, Senator Collins, and Senator Kerry in introducing the Green Chemistry Research and Development Act. This legislation is a bipartisan effort to promote the efforts of some of the most brilliant minds in academia, government, and industry to both reduce the environmental impacts of common chemical processes and to foster the development of a new generation of environmentally responsible chemical products. My fellow cosponsors and I seek to help the chemical industry reduce its use and production of hazardous substances and the overall effect on the environment of the business of chemistry. As it was in the past when Senator Snowe and I previously introduced legislation to promote 'Green Chemistry,' this legislation is supported by the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries and academic institutions because it is designed to hasten the attainment of a goal we all share: making the production of the chemical products we need in ways not detrimental to the environment using engineering processes that save both money and the planet. The products and engineering processes we believe will be developed will produce benefits across the entire economy. What we call 'green chemistry' is nothing more than what every industry in the United States should strive to be.”