2010 Sustainability Report - Cummins.com

In December 2009, Cummins became a charter
member of the DOE’s Save Energy Now LEADERS
program. Cummins pledges to improve energy
efficiency at least 25 percent by 2015.
U.S. EPA
Jim Stanley, President of Duke Indiana (left), presents the
Power Partner Award to Ignacio Garcia, Chief Manufacturing
and Procurement Officer at Cummins.
The EPA is charged with developing and enforcing
environmental regulations. By working with a trusted
business resource such as Cummins, the agency can
better match its technology mandates with realistic
timelines to meet those regulations.
Cummins has shared its perspective on a regulatory
framework that could also provide a useful structure
for technology assessment, improved fuel efficiency
and greenhouse gas reduction from medium and
heavy-duty commercial vehicles.
Duke Energy
Cummins has partnered with Duke Energy to find
energy efficiencies at Company facilities, receiving the
U.S. power company’s “2009 Power Partner” Award.
Duke provides power to several Cummins facilities
in the United States and also has a deregulated
energy services group that has partnered with the
Company on energy efficiency assessments, technical
standards, educational materials and dozens of major
capital projects.
Duke lauded Cummins for launching a corporatewide
energy efficiency campaign. Duke conducted
detailed energy efficiency assessments at Cummins’
largest U.S. sites and helped identify nearly 1,000
potential capital projects.
Duke also helped Cummins develop new efficiency
standards for production equipment and facility
design, along with developing an Energy Champions
training program to improve energy use.
Sustainability reporting
For the past five years, Cummins has participated in
the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), an institutional
investor consortium that seeks to encourage greater
environmental reporting among companies. CDP asks
companies to provide details on their carbon emissions,
their positioning in response to the impact of climate
change on their markets and regulatory environment,
their use of energy and planning for the future.
In addition, Cummins is a member of the Business
Roundtable Climate RESOLVE (Responsible
Environmental Steps, Opportunities to Lead by Voluntary
Efforts), whose members have voluntarily committed to
reduce or offset greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
Cummins also is a member of the Business
Environmental Leadership Council of the Pew
Center on Climate Change and sits on the
President’s Council of Resources for the Future.
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