PCAP - Presidential Climate Action Project

Direct the EPA and DOE to collaborate with the American Truck Association todetermine appropriate incentives to increase the use of wide-base tires.B-09DOE and the EPA should require that tires for heavy-duty trucks are replaced with wide-basetires, and direct the agencies to collaborate with the American Truck Association to determineappropriate incentives to increase the use of these tires. PCAP Report 7:7.Background. This evaluation is limited to the second part of the proposal as quoted from thePCAP Report. According to test results from the National Transportation Research Center at theOak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), tractor-trailers operating with single, wider tiresrecorded improved fuel efficiency numbers between 7.2 to 10 percent when compared to rigsoperating on standard-sized dual tires. 216 The American Truck Association (ATA) is a privateentity.Statutes. Chapter II establishes that the President has a substantial role in planning energy andclimate change policy. Essentially, this proposal directs agencies, specifically the DOE and theEPA, to provide a report or information on a proposal related to energy and climate changepolicy. Providing incentives for the use of wide-base tires will decrease fuel consumption andthus reduce GHG emissions and dependence on foreign oil.The EPA also has a substantial role in developing climate change policy and works with privateindustry on a number of initiatives, as set forth in Proposal B-5 (statutes section).The DOE also has a substantial role in developing energy and climate change policy. Forexample, the DOE develops the least-cost energy strategy (LCES) which is included in thePresident’s National Energy Policy Plan. 217 The DOE is a member of almost every workinggroup, task force, committee and the like developing climate change policy; see, e.g., the ClimateProgram Policy Board, 42 U.S.C. § 2904(e), the Committee on Earth and EnvironmentalSciences, 42 U.S.C. § 2932, the Federal Coordinating Council for Science, Engineering, andTechnology, 42 U.S.C. § 6651, the Committee on Climate Change Technology, of which theSecretary is also the Chair, 42 U.S.C. § 13389(b), etc. The DOE is the primary agency for216 American Association for the Advancement of Science, Eureka Alert, Story Tips from ORNL, May 2008,available at http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/drnl-stf050108.php. The research is funded by the U.S.Dept. Of Energy’s Office of FreedomCAR and Vehicle Technologies. Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Center forTransportation Analysis, News Release (Jan. 23, 2008), available at http://cta.ornl.gov/cta/News.shtml.217 41 U.S.C. § 13382(a) (The priorities of the LCES include energy conservation, stabilization and reduction ofGHGs, increasing energy efficiency, increasing the use of renewable resources, and reducing national oilconsumption.).CEES 53 | P age