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Environmental Stewardship // Partnerships
Cummins demonstrates good environmental stewardship
through our products, practices and our partnerships.
Here’s a look at our activity in all three areas:
Cummins’ environmental sustainability
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
ENVIRONMENT
Partnerships and policy
Cummins’ partnerships have helped the Company
meet its product and emissions goals and use energy
more efficiently. Our policy advocacy has helped bring
environmental solutions to the marketplace.
GLOBAL ENERGY POLICY
Four of the Company’s 10 environmental
sustainability principles focus on partnerships
with legislative and regulatory entities to
develop sound public policy to reduce
our impact on the environment. They are:
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Help develop responsible regulations.
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Promote technology development.
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Advocate for incentives to
accelerate progress.
white paper, supporting the rule publicly
when it was proposed in October 2010
and providing extensive feedback during
the comment period.
Rich Freeland, Cummins’ Vice President
and President – Engine Business, joined
other industry representatives in meeting
with U.S. President Barack Obama as
he announced the final rule on Aug. 9,
2011. The rule is projected to reduce
GHG emissions for trucks and buses built
principles shape the Company’s actions not
only in the United States, but around the
world. Cummins participates in the Global
Commercial Vehicle industry forum, a group
comprised of European, North American
and Japanese manufacturers of heavyduty
vehicles and engines. At the group’s
ninth meeting in Tokyo in late 2011, topics
such as regulatory harmonization, GHG
reductions and fuel efficiency improvements
were at the forefront of the discussion.
Cummins is also becoming more involved
in GHG and fuel efficiency regulatory
development in Europe, China and other
regions of the world. In fact, Cummins has
dedicated resources to focus specifically
on the policies involving GHG and fuel
efficiency regulations for our products
around the world.
This will help us better coordinate the
Company’s global activities in developing
responsible regulations that promote
technologies for more efficient products
with lower GHG emissions in diesel
engines and related technologies.
Cummins has long worked in partnership
with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
to develop advances in energy efficiency.
Previous Cummins programs funded by
the DOE have led to both evolutionary and
breakthrough technologies and analytical
approaches, speeding up the time for the
commercialization of vehicles powered by
advanced combustion engines.
The Company received a $54 million grant
from the DOE in 2010 for two projects
it is currently working on to improve fuel
efficiency in heavy-duty and light-duty
vehicles. The DOE’s heavy-duty program –
SuperTruck – is featured earlier in this
report (page 14).
Energy efficiency represents an
enormous opportunity to cut costs and
greenhouse gas emissions. Buildings
consume 70 percent of the electricity
in the United States and emit more
than a third of greenhouse gases.
Engine Business President
Rich Freeland talks with
reporters on the White
House lawn in 2011 after
the finalization of the GHG /
fuel efficiency standards for
commercial vehicles.
ENVIRONMENT
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Support a balanced global approach.
The principles were put into action
during the development of the first-ever
greenhouse gas (GHG) and fuel efficiency
standards for heavy-duty and medium-duty
vehicles in the United States. Cummins
was very active in the development of the
rule for more than four years – forming a
stakeholder group with other companies in
the industry, writing a regulatory framework
between 2014 and 2018 by approximately
270 million metric tons. The resulting
reduced fuel usage will lead to $42 billion
in net savings for vehicle owners when
considering technology costs.
Consistent with Cummins’ principle to
develop clean, efficient products, the
Company also announced on the same
day that its on-highway engines would meet
the new standards one year early, in 2013.
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