Business Regulations: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

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A sustainable environment is fundamental to the success of any business. In the wake of global warming, lifestyle diseases and a renewed need to operate in a sustainable business environment, the need to achieve integrated and proactive environmental management cannot be overemphasized. Informed consumers look to the federal government to adopt and enforce sustainable environmental practice within various kinds of businesses. Despite the call for sustainability, most business still engages in illegal dumping, non-compliance with permits and authorization, and harvesting of protected species.
Various regulations are in place to protect consumers and ensure business adhere to standard environment-friendly practices. However, governance and law are seemingly meaningless in the absence of compliance (Craigie, Snijman, & Fourie, 2009). The environmental protection agency (EPA) was thus formed with the purpose of ensuring citizens are protected from the harmful environment at work, business, school are in homes. EPA achieves the goal by enforcing federals laws efficiently and equitably.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
The United States environment protection agency was formed in 1970 with the sole purpose of managing federal programs targeting environment. The agency was as a result of environmental issues affecting water, air, and land. During its formation, EPA merged around fifteen different agencies into one (Carper, & McKinsey, 2012). EPA's early responsibilities were to control and minimize population in the central urban areas, metropolises, and factories. However, lately the EPA has changed its weight from enforcement to compliance assistance with the aim of assisting business and organizations in complying with the environmental regulatory requirements.
The EPA’s principal mandates is to advance rules that implement statutes passed by Congress. EPA is the single agency at the core of environmental protection. The government strives to reduce the effect of pollution of water, air, and land through the EPA and affiliated agencies. Ensuring compliance, controlling development and enforcing regulations against violators are ways of providing the mandate is achieved.
All statutes from Congress require tremendous regulation to achieve the regulatory threshold for implementation. For example, to enforce the clean air act, the agency needed to determine standards for clean air. Other federal agencies responsible for regulating the environment include the department of defense, department of interior, department of labor, food and drug administration and nuclear regulatory committee (Carper, & McKinsey, 2012). The law requires all federal agencies to take environmental factors into consideration when making significant decisions.
The environmental protection agency affects businesses in various ways. EPA has regulations that must be met by the business b...