Cummins Confidential is the independent Cummins news and investigations series from The Cummins Accountability Project (TCAP). We examine Cummins Inc. beyond the corporate press releases, glossy sustainability claims and carefully managed newsroom narratives.
From diesel emissions scandals, employee treatment, recalls and financial results to employment practices, executive conduct, Destination Zero and corporate accountability, Cummins Confidential compares the company’s public messaging with the documentary record.
Expect independent scrutiny, evidence-led investigations, sharp satire and the occasional magnificent corporate own goal. Every edition challenges the official narrative, distinguishes documented facts from editorial opinion and invites factual corrections.
Cummins has its newsroom. TCAP has a few questions.
And we are not particularly interested in the approved answers.
One Cummins newsroom article celebrates resurrecting 100 million brake shoes. Another promotes natural gas engines as the sensible response to expensive diesel. TCAP puts both corporate sermons together and discovers an old combustion economy dressed for its own fucking resurrection. New paint, recycled parts and the same fossil-fuel cash machine.
The new Cummins newsroom maze is bad enough as a communications strategy. Add the Ram diesel pickup page and the
TCAP asked the question in June 2025. Cummins spent years acting like the rules were for smaller animals. Now a
Cummins 2030 targets promise bigger engines, mining expansion and stronger financial performance. TCAP examines the investor announcement, contrasting the company’s growth ambitions with its environmental messaging and recycled driveline promotion.
Cummins celebrates founder Clessie Cummins before returning to the X15 diesel engine, DEF consumption and fleet efficiency. TCAP dissects the corporate nostalgia, the diesel sales pitch and the uncomfortable contrast with Destination Zero.
Cummins newsroom recycling comes under TCAP scrutiny as older diesel marketing content resurfaces under a newer publication date. An examination of corporate messaging, recycled narratives and the curious timing of newsroom activity.
TCAP asked whether Jennifer Rumsey would pay for Cummins’ hydrogen wreck. Days later, Cummins put her in a garden. Fifty
Jennifer Rumsey sits at the top of Cummins as Chair and CEO. Under her watch, the hydrogen halo has turned
Cummins dropped three posts in one go and somehow still said the same miserable thing three times. One soft-focus employee
