Ethics and Legal Environment

Running head: ETHICS AND LEGAL ENVIRONMENT 1
Ethics and Legal Environment
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ETHICS AND LEGAL ENVIRONMENT 2
Ethics and Legal Environment
Introduction
Stakeholders include people around the plant, environment and employees. Specifically,
they include Plant Manager (George Mackee); boss to George (Bill); wife to George (Mary),
Ardnanck Plastic Incorporation; environment; Hondo; Mexico; EPA; Mexican workers,
government of Mexico, the US, employee’s friends, and their families.
The stakeholder’s main interests was to have healthy and safe environment. Ardnanck,
George, and Bill were interested in profitability in their firm. The interest of Mexican
government was for the Company to comply with EPA and restrictions on clean air. The US’s
interest was on the breach of the standards of EPA being relocated to its territory. The
Company’s employees, their friends and extended families have interest on having clean air to
breath as they have been inhaling contaminated air.
Legal Analysis
Applicable Environmental Laws
According to the readings for this week, three different laws directly dealing with
environment were covered including Clean Water Act, Toxic Torts (TT) alongside Clean Air Act
(CAA). EPA enforces and regulate all these laws. Looking at this case, only CAA and TT will
apply. Kaplan e-Guide (n.d) posits that a toxic-tort remains lawful phrase for business action
which entails contact with toxic material and triggers injuries to stakeholders in the environment.
Bill called George about environmental fines and problems and he confesses to being conscious
of such an issue for a period since head office would never venture in novel scrubbers of
smokestack. George seriously pondered regarding problem solution via schedule of emission
operation during night that would see the level of pollution high night times but ensure emissions