Chapter 10

Sustainability leaders have found that the most effective environmental management approach involves:

A team of line managers from across the business organization

In the United States, the federal government regulates which of the following major areas of environmental protection?

All of the above: Air pollution, water pollution, waste

Environmental regulations stimulate some sectors of the economy by:

All of these answers are correct: creating jobs in industries like environmental consulting, asbestos abatement, and instrument manufacturing. Saving jobs in industries like fishing and tourism when natural areas are protected or restored. Compelling businesses to become more efficient by conserving energy

Emission fees are accurately characterized by which statements

All of these are correct: each business is charged for the undesirable pollutions that it emits, companies emitting more pollutants end up paying more pollution taxes, revenues from emission fees can be used to support environmental efforts

The Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) is accurately described by which statement

Both of these answers are correct: It established a fund primarily supported by a tax on the petroleum and chemical companies; and the fund collected are used to clean up sites where the original polluter cannot be identified

Studies have shown that green marketing has been most successful at what level?

Brand

The annual EPA report Toxic Release Inventory is an example of which environmental policy type

Information disclosure

The Toxic Substances control act is accurately described by which of the following:

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

Environmental justice is a movement to

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

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

Sweden

Under US Sentencing guidelines, how would firms facing environmental violations typically be treated if they had an active compliance program and fully cooperated with investigators?

Their sentence would likely be lighter

Possible costs of environmental regulations include all of the following except:

corporate restructuring

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

ecologically sustainable organizations

Which stage of corporate environmental responsibility focuses on the full life cycle of a product?

product stewardship stage

Every environmental regulation must be initially evaluated for its costs and benefits in a process called:

regulatory impact analysis