• Expanded coverage of energy production (especially biofuels), the generation and disposal of CO2, and innovative ways to combat climate change.
• Increased international coverage to give all students a better perspective on environmental problems and solutions around the world – for example, there is increased coverage of gaseous and particulate air pollution and CO2 emissions and air quality standards in different countries, both developed and developing ones.
• Updated Green Chemistry cases, including new cases on the development of Bio-based Toners, recycling carbon dioxide, a non-volatile, reactive coalsesnet for the reduction of VOCs in Latex Paints, bio-based liquid fuels and Chemicals, and
spinetoram, an improvement on a green pesticide.
• An Activity has been inserted into each chapter – these web- or library-based mini-projects could be assigned to individual students or to a group of them to accomplish and report on.
• More schematic diagrams have been added to promote student comprehension of the more complicated chemistry and appeal to a variety of learning styles.
• Marginal notes – to supplement the main text with additional interesting material, and to indicate which Review Questions are relevant to the material at hand.