Environmental Proetction Laws & the DOD INTRODUCTION This study examined the

Environmental protection is an issue of enormous significance and interest to the American public. Most Americans are cognizant of environmental issues, as those issues apply to business and industry, and as those issues apply to individual and households. Most Americans, however, are unaware of the applicability of environmental law and environmental protection regulations to the activities of the United States Department of Defense.

The application of environmental protection law and regulations to private industry and household occurs within an open public forum. All Americans, if the are interested, may gain access t

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he expanded concepts was that all institutions and organizations including business, which derived benefit from being a part of and which individually or collectively affected the direction of a society had responsibilities to that society which extended beyond "self" interests. Friedman, as evidenced by the above quotation, rejected this notion. Although Friedman's intent was quite clear on the question of the social responsibility of business, his assessment, never the less, contained one of the notorious "loopholes," which provide the basis for so much of the political discussion (and some profit) in the United States. This loophole in Friedman's assessment is the phrase "so long as it stays within the rules of the game." Friedman, of course, was referring to operations which fall within the framework of market economics principles, as he interprets these principles, and to operations which conform to the legal and ethical standards in the United States, as he thinks these standards should exist. The phrase, "so long as it stays within the rules of the game," however, can be and has been interpreted in different ways by others. Some feel that the longterm conservation of the country's natural resour
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Approximate Word count = 1939
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)