At Saint Francis University, you won't just be learning facts from a textbook, or even just preforming experiments in a lab. Our Environmental Chemistry students go out into the community to take action on local environmental issues like lead contamination, acid mine drainage, and more. When you study environmental chemistry, you'll focus on the presence and impact of chemicals in soil, surface water, and groundwater and how these chemicals affect the ecosystems, animals and human health. At SFU, we take environmental chemistry a step further by learning about ways to change our environment for the better. Many environmental chemists find jobs with remediation firms and environmental consulting companies. Other opportunities include working for government and regulatory agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centers for Disease Control, and others. And some choose to do laboratory research in industrial or manufacturing settings.