As much as we have to fear from climate change, what scares me just as much is the vast number of untested substances we dump into the environment each year in huge quantities and with unknown effects. Only a small cadre of chemists really understands this problem and what to do about it. With Chasing Molecules, Elizabeth Grossman gives us the first book to tell their story. A tireless investigative journalist, she expertly distills the science of green chemistry and the promise it holds for a healthier world. -- Paul R. Ehrlich "co-author of The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment" There are enough environmental problems that seem insoluble Elizabeth Grossman has given us this chronicle of a field with a bright future, the green chemistry that will replace the crude methods of the 19th century with the smart ones of the 21st. She tells us how it could happenwe should listen carefully! -- Bill McKibben "author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy" "Grossman profiles the worst offenders, including bisphenol A (BPA) and phthalates, but she also portrays the good guys who are coming to the rescue, John Warner and Paul Anastas, founders of the burgeoning green chemistry movement. Green chemistry aims to replace hazardous synthetic chemicals with chemicals that are "benign by design." Grossman's clarion expose should give this lifesaving initiative a big boost."--Donna Seaman "Booklist " "There are enough environmental problems that seem insoluble Elizabeth Grossman has given us this chronicle of a field with a bright future, the green chemistry that will replace the crude methods of the 19th century with the smart ones of the 21st. She tells us how it could happen we should listen carefully!"--Bill McKibben "author of "The End of Nature" and "Deep Economy" "" "As much as we have to fear from climate change, what scares me just as much is the vast number of untested substances we dump into the environment each year in huge quantities and with unknown effects. Only a small cadre of chemists really understands this problem and what to do about it. With "Chasing Molecules," Elizabeth Grossman gives us the first book to tell their story. A tireless investigative journalist, she expertly distills the science of green chemistry and the promise it holds for a healthier world."--Paul R. Ehrlich "coauthor of "The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment" " "I couldn't put this book down. I began reading before bedtime, finished as the first birds began singing, and felt a whole new world had been revealed to me. "Chasing Molecules" is the most important book I've read in ten years."--Sandra Steingraber "biologist and author of "Living Downstream" " "I couldn''t put this book down. I began reading before bedtime, finished as the first birds began singing, and felt a whole new world had been revealed to me. "Chasing Molecules" is the most important book I''ve read in ten years."--Sandra Steingraber "biologist and author, Living Downstream "

Elizabeth Grossman is the author of High Tech Trash: Digital Devices, Hidden Toxics, and Human Health, Watershed: The Undamming of America, and Adventuring Along the Lewis and Clark Trail. Her writing has appeared in Mother Jones, The Nation, Salon, The Washington Post, and other publications. She lives in Portland, Oregon.