Total Environmental Compliance: A Practical Guide for Environmental Professionals
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Total Environmental Compliance: A Practical Guide for Environmental Professionals gives you the background and skills you need to ensure total environmental compliance in your organization. Instead of dryly describing theoretical management systems or reciting regulatory provisions, the author delves into the challenging issues of why organizations disregard this important issue and explains how to promote compliance-oriented attitudes throughout the entire organization.
The Guide focuses on critical elements such as communication skills, hiring and retaining qualified employees, managing environmental information, and maintaining high standards of professionalism. Other topics covered include: how to understand environmental requirements, why organizations violate environmental laws, and the aspects of permitting, designing, and monitoring that must be considered to achieve and sustain compliance. Case studies illustrate actual instances of individuals and organizations who ran afoul of environmental laws because they disregarded the basic principles of environmental compliance.
Total Environmental Compliance: A Practical Guide for Environmental Professionals explores how noncompliance occurs and how to avoid it using techniques that address legal requirements. It shows you how to protect your organization from the expensive and time consuming litigation that occurs when environmental laws are ignored or interpreted incorrectly.
Table of Contents
COMPLIANCE, NONCOMPLIANCE, AND THE ENFORCEMENT PROCESS
The Benefits of Environmental Compliance
The Risks Associated With Noncompliance
How Environmental Laws Are Enforced
Violations and Enforcement Decisions
How Environmental Lawsuits Are Resolved
How Settlement Considerations Affect Outcomes
LEGAL LIABILITY AND ATTITUDES TOWARD COMPLIANCE
Legal Liability
Attitudes and the Road to Noncompliance
THE COMPLIANCE ORIENTED ATTITUDE
What Environmental Compliance Means
Assuming Responsibility for Environmental Compliance
FOUNDATIONS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE
The Element of Leadership
Establishing Environmental Competence
Setting Up an Environmental Compliance Program
Considerations in Adopting Environmental Management Systems
ASCERTAINING ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
Basic Considerations
The Difference Between Legal Requirements and Enforcement Discretion
The Public Welfare Doctrine and How Courts View Environmental Laws
Dealing With Regulatory Uncertainty
COMMUNICATING COMPLIANCE INFORMATION
Communicating Within an Organization
Communicating With Government Agencies
Managing Environmental Documents
DESIGNING FACILITIES AND PROCESSES TO ENHANCE COMPLIANCE
Working With Design Teams to Encompass Compliance Issues
Designing Systems to Comply Under All Conditions
Designing Systems to Avoid Compliance Issues
PROMOTING COMPLIANCE THROUGH CAREFUL PERMITTING
Overview of the Permitting Process
Basic Objectives in Obtaining Environmental Permits
Completing Permit Applications
Commenting on Draft Permits
Appealing Permits: Some Pragmatic Considerations
Implementing the Final Permit
Permit Modifications
MEASUREMENTS, MONITORING, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR COMPLIANCE
Sampling Issues
Analytical Issues
Estimating and Reporting Environmental Quantities
Surrogate Parameters
COMPLIANCE ASSISTANCE
Technical Consultants
Environmental Service Providers
Attorneys
WHEN THINGS GO WRONG
Corrective Action
Continuous Improvement
Reporting Compliance Problems
Resolving Compliance Problems
Rebuilding After Enforcement
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