ethics chapter

In 2011 how many of the world's top 250 companies issued an integrated sustainability report?

95 percent

Which of the following statements is not true with respect to acid rain?

Acid rain occurs when carbon dioxide combines with water vapor in the atmosphere

Which of the following statements is true of air pollution?

Air pollution occurs when more pollutants are emitted into the atmosphere than can be safely absorbed and diluted by natural processes

Effective environmental management requires an integrated approach that involves:

All parts of the organization, as well as strong partnerships with stakeholders.

Companies that cultivate a vision of sustainability must adopt sophisticated strategic planning techniques to:

Allow their top manager to assess the full range of the firm's effects on the environment.

Which of the following is not true about the guidelines for sentencing environmental wrongdoers set by the U.S. Sentencing Commission?

Businesses having no active compliance program would be granted an extension to develop a program

Which of the following is the most advanced stage of corporate environmental responsibility?

Clean technology stage

Some researchers believe that business firms moving towards ecological sustainability results in:

Competitive advantages

Which of the following is not a possible cost of environmental regulation?

Corporate restructuring

Businesses in the clean technology stage

Develop innovative technologies that support sustainability

Being able to continue their activities indefinitely, without altering the carrying capacity of the earth's ecosystem, is a characteristic of:

Ecologically sustainable organizations

When businesses form voluntary, collaborative partnerships with environmental organizations and regulators to achieve specific objectives this is called:

Environmental partnerships

Which country has made the greatest progress in reducing its solid waste stream?

Germany

When companies develop a reputation for environmental excellence, and they produce and deliver products and services designed to attract environmentally aware customers, this is called:

Green marketing

Which of the following is not true about water pollution?

It can be caused by biodegradable products

Which of the following is true about the Toxic Substances Control Act?

It established a national policy to regulate, restrict, and, if necessary, ban toxic chemicals

Which of the following is indicative of a firm in the pollution prevention stage of the corporate environmental responsibility model?

Minimizing or eliminating waste before it is created

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," has the following benefit

Natural gas burns more cleanly than either coal or oil

Which of the following is not true about "green" management practices?

No more than 10 to 25 percent of all U.S. companies are adopting environmental practices

Environmental justice is a movement to

Prevent inequitable exposure to risk, such as from hazardous waste.

When environmentally proactive companies seek out imaginative, innovative new methods for reducing pollution and increasing efficiency, they are adopting which strategy?

Technological innovation

Which of the following statements is not true about environmental standards?

The government rarely interferes in a business's choice of pollution technology.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created:

To coordinate most of the government's efforts to protect the environment

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 (amended in 1984) does not require:

all hazardous waste to be incinerated

Companies that reduce pollution and hazardous waste, reuse or recycle materials, and operate with greater energy efficiency achieve a competitive advantage due to:

cost savings

Subaru Automotive of America's effort to minimize waste is an example of:

pollution prevention