The founder of a startup company who is working with the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has won an Environmental Protection Agency Green Challenge Award for a unique air pollution control technology. Captis Aire— founded by Kim Tutin, a fellow of ORNL’s Innovation Crossroads program — is built on Tutin’s Chemical Adsorption Innovation that Reduces Emissions, or CAIRE, technology, which captures pollutants from the air and provides raw materials for a variety of industries. The EPA award recognizes the technology’s game-changing potential in industries that release organic compounds into the air.“We’re very proud of the EPA award and its recognition of the value of the CAIRE technology,” Tutin said. “I am extraordinarily and forever indebted to Oak Ridge National Laboratory and particularly the Innovation Crossroads program.”