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EPA UNVEILS THE FIRST VIRTUAL AUTO BODY SHOP
Release Date: 09/21/2000
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FOR RELEASE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2000
EPA UNVEILS THE FIRST VIRTUAL AUTO BODY SHOP
The EPA Design for the Environment (DfE) Program, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics has launched a first-of-a-kind auto body shop/information center on the web: https://www.epa.gov/dfe/autobody/autobody.html. The site advances the goal of DfE’s Auto Refinish project to bring safer, cleaner, and more efficient practices and technologies to the auto refinishing shop that will keep painters and shop workers healthier, reduce pollution and emissions to the community and increase spray painting efficiencies that will save money. The site was co-developed with the Coordinating Committee for Automotive Repair known as CCAR-GreenLink at: http://www.ccar-greenlink.org, recipient of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s “Model of Excellence” award for its leadership in providing environmental compliance assistance to the automotive small business community. The virtual shop links to DfE Best Practice Guide, fact sheets from New Jersey’s Right-to-Know program on solvents, pigments, and other chemicals used in auto refinishing; and also directly to paint companies who have publicly posted their material safety data sheets and health and safety materials; and a link to a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Alert for information on health effects of diisocyanates, the hardener in clear coats used by shop painters and the leading cause of occupational asthma.
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