Discussion Post: Legal Environment
• After reading 7 Sins of Greenwashing (And 5 Ways to Keep It Out of Your Life), discuss the tension between business's interests in maximizing profits and the public's interest in receiving complete, truthful, and non-misleading information about products that they purchase. From a business perspective, what are the dangers of greenwashing? If you were a marketing executive, would you have a policy against greenwashing? Why or why not?
• Visit the Small Business Administration's "Environmental Regulations" page and visit the United States Environmental Protection Agency's "Laws & Regulations" pages.
Identify one environmental law that is relevant to your past, current, or future employer. Apply that law to a business situation created by that employer. How does (or did) that employer maintain compliance with that statute? Do you believe that environmental regulations help or hinder business? Why, or why not?
The response must include a reference list. Using Times New Roman 12 pnt font, double-space, one-inch margins, and APA style of writing and citations.