It’s officially summertime in the U.S. and the Malta, New York, solid oxide fuel cell team celebrated with a Community Involvement Team (CIT) event. With support from The Cummins Foundation, the Malta site partnered with United Way Worldwide and United Way of the Greater Capital Region to build bikes for local youth in the community.

The findings included in the company’s recently released 2020 Sustainability Progress Report demonstrate that setting challenging goals, sharing them publicly and reporting on the company’s progress can drive important environmental benefits. Even when the company fell short of a goal, it made meaningful progress. For example, while Cummins didn’t achieve its goal of a companywide 95% recycling rate, it nevertheless set a record rate of 93%.

From the farm to the financial world and college to career, Cummins has always been part of Anna Neese’s life as long as she can remember. “Cummins is headquartered in Indiana and I grew up on a farm in Indiana. So, we always had Cummins tractors, semis, pick-up trucks, what have you on the farm. So, I was very familiar with the Cummins name and that logo.”

John Lee, Cummins Power Systems Product Engineer from Shoreview, Minnesota (USA), has reason to be proud: one of his six children, Suni, is headed to the Olympics as part of the U.S. Women’s Gymnastics team.  John laughs as he remembers a six-year-old Suni, before she started training. “She was always jumping around on couches, and it was clear we needed to do something to channel that energy. I remember the first time I took her to the gym, there were a lot of people there, girls doing flips—Suni said, ‘oh they’re so good!’ She wanted to be just like them.”

Overview Challenge: Provide power systems technologies for a completely off-grid microgrid solution that has the capacity to provide continuous reliable power in high ambient conditions, for a gold mining company.  Solution: A hybrid renewable energy solution with nine C2000N5CB QSV91G gas generator sets, two C2250

Air Products (NYSE:APD), a world leader in the supply and transport of hydrogen, and Cummins Inc., a global power and hydrogen technologies leader, jointly announce the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to work together to accelerate the integration of hydrogen fuel cell trucks in the Americas, Europe and Asia.

We have to get going on lowering greenhouse gas emissions. The earth depends on us doing this. My children and their children will look back at us to say, “What did you do about this problem?”’ – Tom Linebarger, Cummins Chairman & CEO So, what is Cummins doing? One of our latest investments in Spain, which includes a new facility to manufacture electrolyzers and a partnership with Iberdrola on large-scale electrolysis projects to produce green hydrogen, is helping us get one step closer to a carbon-neutral world.

Fuel cells have come a long way since they were first successfully demonstrated in the early 19th century by Humphry Davy. They were first heavily used for outer space missions, including the Apollo 11 flight in 1969, which not only carried the first man to the moon but also three fuel cell stacks to power all the equipment in the space module.

The letter to President Biden and congressional leaders follows a recent U.S. District Court ruling that found the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was unlawful. The decision left thousands of immigrants widely known as Dreamers facing at best an uncertain future, including potential impediments to finding and retaining work.