Environmental Audits: Corporate Compliance without Government Sanctions
✍ Scribed by LaCroix, Catherine J.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Weight
- 411 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0743-5665
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✦ Synopsis
It is a fact of corporate life that the demands on environmental managers are skyrocketing: the environmental laws continue to grow in breadth and complexity, as do the risks of noncompliance, in ferns of exposure to civil, criminal, and citizen suit liability. As a result, many companies rely onvoluntary environmental audits to evaluate their compliance programs, encouraged in part by a 1986 Environmental Protection Agency policy statement on such audits. However, in July 1991 the Department of Justice @OJ) sent chills down corporate spines by issuing a policy statement on the use of company environmental audits in criminal enforcement proceedings. The DOJ policy appeared to require "voluntary" disclosure of adverse audit findings as a precondition to staving off DOJ action.
However, in July 1991 the Department of Justice (DOJ) sent chills down corporate spines by issuing a policy statement on the use of company environmental audits in criminal enforcement proceedings. The DOJ policy
appeared w require "voluntary" disclosure of adverse auditflndings as a precondition to staving offDOJ action.