“The economy runs on tires.”Anne Forristall Luke, longtime CEO of the U.S. Tire Manufacturers Association (USTMA), will tell you that right out of the gate. Her point is that her industry’s economic impact goes even beyond the number of people it employs and the taxes that member companies pay.It’s a vital distinction, because the tire industry has a major environmental challenge: finding an alternative to the antioxidant 6PPD, a transformation product of which leaches out of tires and onto roads, and from there into waterways, where it has been linked to the deaths of coho salmon in the Pacific Northwest. The association has mounted an expensive research effort to tackle… Read More