ACS blogs
As of August 2022, Industry Matters moved from a weekly newsletter of the American Chemical Society's Industry Member Programs to monthly. For most of 2022, my column appeared every three weeks in the Industry Matters newsletter, also commonly re-released in the ACS Matters newletter. I was asked to blog for the ACS starting in April 2015. Previously, I wrote a monthly blog on topics related to the chemical industry for Industry Voices. Changes in ACS staffing put Industry Voices on hiatus, ultimatley to be recast as Industry Matters.
| Date | Blog | Link | |
| 8 December 2022 | Carved In Stone | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 8 December 2022 | Road Salt Revisited | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 3 November 2022 | Woodpecker Chemistry | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 11 August 2022 | Meetings: None of us is as dumb as all of us | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 14 July 2022 | Testing the Limits of Recycling - Part 2 | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 16 June 2022 | Limits to Circular | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 26 May2022 | New Dangers in the Woods | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 5 May 2022 | A Little Despair on Earth Day | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 14 April 2022 | Good Luck With That! | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 24 March 2022 | Smelly Buckets | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 3 March 2022 | The Magnesium Shortage Is No Typical Supply Chain Issue | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 10 February 2022 | George Curme: A name every industrial chemisty should know | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 20 January 2022 | Better for Travel, Worse for the Environment | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 16 December 2021 | Sustainability for the Holidays | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 18 November 2021 | Get the Lead Out |
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| 4 November 2021 | Shifting from a Fuel-Intensive, to a Material-Intensive World | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 14 October 2021 | Life-Giving and Life-Taking Chemistry: Toxic is sometimes what you want | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 26 August 2021 | Developing A New Pasta | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 5 August 2021 | Plastic Everywhere | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 1 July 2021 | Vaccinated Not Invincible | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 17 June 2021 | Toxic Credit Cards | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 13 May 2021 | Reason for Optimism | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 8 April 2021 | More Gratitudes for Chemistry published on ACS Industry Matters | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 21 May 2020 | Gratitude for Chemistry published on ACS Industry Matters | ACS Industry Matters | text | LinkedIn | |
| 7 May 2020 | COVID questions in ACS Industry Matters | ACS Industry Matters | |
| 30 April 2020 | COVID questions in ACS Industry Matters | ACS Industry Matters | |
| 1 July 2019 | What I Learned column in ACS Industry Matters | What I Learned | |
| 17 March 2017 | Robotics and artificial intelligence: can they make today’s chemist obsolete? | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 4 January 2017 | My Favorite Patents: How I am in awe of the inventor of the self-inflating whoopee cushion | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 7 October 2016 | The Scientific Literacy Paradox | ACS Industry Voices text | |
| 16 September 2016 | Going in Circles | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 12 August 2016 | The Degrading State of Composting | ACS Industry Voices text | |
| 14 July 2016 | Where There’s Smoke: Getting Risk Right | ACS Industry Voices text | |
| 24 June 2016 | Chemistry on Display: Depictions in Ads and Art | ACS Industry Voices text | |
| 11 May 2016 | Chemistry Failed Me: My battle with the Emerald Ash Borer | ACS Industry Voices text | |
| 21 March 2016 |
Planting Trees You'll Never Use For Shade |
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| 3 March 2016 | I Just Wrecked My Platinum Footprint | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 29 January 2016 | Not Again: Flint and the Consequences of Following the Law Instead of Its Intent | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 16 December 2015 | Sometimes the Axes Are Just Orthogonal | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 25 November 2015 | Is Education the Answer? At least in the case of smoking, the ability of education to alter behavior has reached a limit. | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 23 October 2015 | They Lied to Me (and You): lamentations of a VW diesel owner | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 24 September 2015 | No Brand Love for Chemical Companies: chemical history seems never to be fondly rememebered | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 18 August 2015 | Cheap Enough to Eat? Shale gas is so cheap and abundant that technologies are being deployed to make it directly into food. | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 17 July 2015 | Ambiguous Definitions Are The Enemy Of Agreement: a comparison of the concepts safe and sustainable | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 5 June 2015 | The Paradox of Making Something Everyone Needs: eggs are related to chemical production | ACS Industry Voices | |
| 24 April 2015 | Retractions: perils of the patent literature, where nothing is retracted, are outlined | ACS Industry Voices | |