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Required Resources: Environmental

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Fieser, J. (2015). Introduction to business ethics [Electronic version]. Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/ Chapter 9: Environmental Issues

Articles

Carman, N. (2009, March 30). Hydrogen sulfide needs hazardous air pollutant listing under CAA Title III [Letter to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]. Retrieved from http://www.earthworksaction.org/files/publications/H2SLetterToEPA.pdf

Letter requesting EPA to list Hydrogen Sulfide in air emissions from various industrial wastes (such as those from slaughterhouses, including chicken factory farms with waste incinerators) as a hazardous air pollutant.

Heinzen, T., Frantz, T., Nivens, J., Kimbrell, G., Jarrett, J., Malott, M., … Edwards, S. (2011). Petition for the regulation of ammonia as a criteria pollutant under clean air act sections 108 and 109 [Citizen petition to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]. Retrieved from http://www.environmentalintegrity.org/documents/PetitiontoListAmmoniaasaCleanAirActCriteriaPollutant.pdf

This is a petition to the EPA for the regulation of ammonia as a pollutant.

Hoover, J. (2013). Can’t you smell that smell? Clean air act fixes for factory farm air pollution. Stanford Journal of Animal Law and Policy, 6, 1-29. Retrieved from http://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1043&context=student_pubs

The article argues that the EPA should regulate the emissions of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, two pollutants for which factory farms are major sources.

U.S. Government Accountability Office. (2008). Concentrated animal feeding operations: EPA needs more information and a clearly defined strategy to protect air and water quality from pollutants of concern (GAO- 08-944). Retrieved from http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d08944.pdf

This is a governmental report on concentrated animal feeding operations (i.e., factory farms).

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Ashford 5: - Week 4 (Jan 31 - Feb 06)

Week Four Overview Required Resources Required Resources: Environmental

Required Resources: Advertising Required Resources: Safety

Required Resources: Moral Resposibility Discussion