The ECAR Center is a "one-stop shop" for all automotive dismantling and recycling operations and provides comprehensive and up-to-date environmental compliance assistance.

Its mission is to help reduce potential impacts on the environment from the automotive recycling sector through better availability of information regarding various forms of best management practices, pollution control and prevention and compliance with environmental regulations.

The Center's hallmark is its state-by-state fact sheet tour on 25 topics important to automotive recyclers. See ECAR Center State Fact Sheet Tour.

Check out the What's New pages to read about what automotive recyclers are doing around the nation ...

Check out the new look of the What's New page. To make it easier for you to find information about your specific interests/concerns and/or to just stay current with the day's events, the page is now divided into three separate subject headings - EPA News, National Programs and Environmental Excellence Awards.

• What's New at EPA
  • EPA Issues Latest Information on Toxic Chemical Releases
  • EPA Announces $211 Million of Recovery Act Funding Available to Reduce Diesel Emissions, Spur Redevelopment, Create Jobs
  • Regional Energy Efficiency Workforce Development Forum Co-Sponsored By NESCAUM and EPA
  • EPA Helps Put America Back to Work Protecting Human Health and Cleaning Up the Environment
  • EPA Publishes Annual U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report
• What's New for National Programs
• What's New for National/State Environmental Excellence Awards

• Scrap auto parts business picks up amid downturn
  Wednesday, April 22, 2009-- "In general, recycled automotive parts sales are up," says Jennifer Johnson, spokeswoman for the Automotive Recyclers Association, an industry trade group. "People are fixing their older vehicles rather than buying new vehicles." Business is good for the Pull-A-Part chain, an Atlanta-based operation with 23 do-it-yourself yards in the South and Midwest, says Steve Levetan, senior vice president. "We're seeing more and more people."....[<|>More]
  [USA Today]
• EPA Administrator Reinstates Full TRI Reporting Requirements
  Tuesday, April 21, 2009-- EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson signed a final rule to reinstate stricter reporting requirements for industrial and federal facilities that release toxic substances that threaten human health and the environment....[<|>More]
  [EPA Newsroom]
• Waste Board Awards $2 Million to Get Rid of Tires: Grants will pay for local tire cleanups and amnesty events across California
  Tuesday, April 21, 2009-- The California Integrated Waste Management Board today approved more than $2 million in grants to 40 applicants throughout the state for tire cleanup projects and amnesty events that will remove nearly 700,000 waste tires that are littering the landscape....[<|>More]
  [California Environmental Protection Agency]