Tire

An Oklahoma Indian community is so contaminated with soot and other particulates from a nearby industrial plant that residents want to take regulating matters into their own hands.

Ever wonder what makes tires black? It’s fine pieces of black carbon. But producer Vicki Monks reports that Oklahomans who live near a plant that manufactures the product say they’ve been left unprotected and it may be time to give an Indian reservation control over environmental regulation.

Not very many of the quarter-billion tires that Americans dispose of each year are recycled. As Nathan Johnson reports, many end up in huge piles in landfills where they easily catch fire, sometimes by accident and sometimes on purpose.

President Obama set off a trade dispute on Friday when he announced that the U.S. would impose a 35 percent tariff on imported Chinese tires. How is all this playing out in the U.S. business scene?

Beijing calls for talks with Washington over tire tariffs, after President Obama announced that he will tack on a 35 percent tariff to imports of Chinese tires for cars and light trucks. We talk to BBC Correspondent Chris Hogg about the implications.