Green Auto Repair News
Body Shop Pollution
GreenRepairNow.comThe Environmental Protection Agency produced a community information sheet about body shop pollution. This helped to lead many repair shops to start working toward becoming more environmentally friendly. Here is the sheet for you to learn from as well.
Pollution-Related Deaths
GreenRepairNow.comOften we thing of being green as something that helps the enviroment be better. And this is true, but around the world pollution is not something that just causes trees to die, but real people. By choosing a green auto repair shop you might not be saving a life, but you are becoming part of the solution instead of causing just a little more damage. Science Daily has the story.
Dirtiest Air in America, 1969
GreenRepairNow.comChattanooga has fought hard over the recent years to clean the air you and I breathe every second. It has not always been that way. The Realty Times takes a look back into the past.
More Getting Trained with Waterborne
GreenRepairNow.comThere are even more repair shops discovering the benefits of using waterborne paint. The company PPG Automotive Refinish says that "more than 10,000 technicians" are now trained to use waterborne paints. We here at Green Repair Now are excited about the prospect of more shops using environmentally friendly paints. Together we can increase the rate at which we decrease our CO2 emissions.
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Black & White Auto Takes Action to Go Green Marketwire (press release) COLORADO SPRINGS, CO--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - Black & White Auto Body & Paint, a family-owned premier auto body repair shop specializing in collision repairs in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is taking a proactive step to go green. Black & White ... |
Boston OKs building with 104 apartments in growing 'Green District' near ... Boston.com The building will span two parcels at 75 Brainerd and 10 Redford, which together comprise just over a half acre. The properties have housed a single-story warehouse building, which was recently razed, and an auto repair shop, which will soon be torn down. |
Netishen steers into the winner's circle Foster's Daily Democrat Leslie Keyser broke out to the early lead when the green waved, but the field was quickly brought under caution when “Super Dave” Sanborn, fresh off a win the week before, lost power and came to a stop in turn one with just two laps in the record books ... |
The Express Tribune | Green car: The juice on hybrids in Pakistan The Express Tribune Green car: The juice on hybrids in Pakistan. Getting a greener car is the smart choice, but the government ... According to official car import numbers, over 1,140 Toyota Prius were imported from July to October 2012 compared to less than a thousand ... |
US HOT STOCKS: IGate, Monro, Saks, SoundBite, Yingli -2- Wall Street Journal Monro Muffler Brake Inc.'s (MNRO, $47.28, +$3.17, +7.19%) fiscal fourth-quarter earnings fell 23% as the auto-repair company's same-store sales declined and margins shrank. ... Chinese solar energy company Yingli Green Energy Holding Co. (YGE, $3.55 ... |