Business Environmental Regulations
To protect the environment, the Environmental protection Agency has established several laws that impact how business operations affect the environment. The business environmental regulations guide how businesses can operate on a daily basis, how the businesses can dispose of items they use to produce goods and how the business processes affect the air and water in the communities in which the businesses operate.
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The Clean Air Act
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The Clean Air Act serves to protect the environment from pollution caused by business manufacturing or production processes. One portion of the act encourages businesses to use heating and energy sources such as clean low-sulfur coal and natural gas for their manufacturing and daily operational practices. The act also promotes the use of other energy sources and includes an acid-rain prevention program to reduce the pollution the business generates and emits into the air of the communities where the business operates.
The Clean Water Act
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The Clean Water Act regulates how business practices affect the bodies of water that surround the businesses. The act helps to provide a guide on how businesses should properly dispose of waste materials so that the disposal does not contaminate the various bodies of water around the business and the other bodies of water with which the pollution may come into contact.
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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
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The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act regulates how businesses should dispose of hazardous waste or waste that can become hazardous if not properly disposed of. The EPA describes the waste disposal process as how a business handles waste "from the cradle to the grave," meaning how businesses handle the generation, storage and disposal of waste. The act describes some of the disastrous outcomes that can result when companies do not dispose of their waste properly. The act also identifies ways companies can handle their waste from beginning to end to minimize environmental impacts.
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