Join us as Steve Owens discusses the importance of green chemistry practices in producing more environmentally sustainable and less toxic products. Owens will discuss work that is going on at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to promote green chemistry and green products, as well as efforts in the private sector to produce green products with more sustainable ingredients.
Steve Owens is an attorney with Squire Sanders LLP. He has served as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety & Pollution Prevention at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. As Assistant Administrator, he was responsible for overseeing many of EPA's collaborative pollution prevention and sustainability programs, such as the agency's green chemistry and green products efforts.
Friday, April 20, 2012
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.
Wrigley Hall, Room 481
Continental breakfast will be served
Established in 2007, the School of Sustainability brings together multiple disciplines and leaders to create and share knowledge, train a new generation of scholars and practitioners, and develop practical solutions to the most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges of sustainability - especially as they relate to urban areas.
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