This presentation will not articulate the doomsday scenario of an industrialized world without environmental chemistry. Rather, it will be full of hope, describing the myriad ways our health and wellbeing are promoted by efforts of diligent environmental scientists, who enable continual industrial and scientific innovation to advance in a green manner. We will specifically discuss how analytical instrumentation and application to industrial problem solving has evolved over the last few decades, and what positive impacts have been achieved. These advances have enabled a high integrity scientific framework for establishing important regulations to assure environmental and human health, along with the practical means to comply with them. We will highlight emerging technologies in environmental science, and opportunities for those eager to help drive continued technology and life science advancements, while still assuring good environmental stewardship.

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