Our team was tasked with advising Alumina, Inc., the aluminum maker in the simulation that had one Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compliance violation in five years and is being threatened in a million-dollar personal injury lawsuit. The team is to recommend a strategy in the lawsuit defense and advise whether to settle the dispute or defend the company's position in court as if we were acting as the CEO of the company. We will also discuss the pitfalls of other areas of corporate government regulation in addition to environmental controls. The team recommends that the key decision-maker in this scenario take a multi-level approach at the onset of this problem. The first thing Alumina, Inc. should do is conduct an independent site study to check current compliance with the applicable EPA regulations. If the study results showed additional violations, the company should voluntarily disclose them to the EPA, and then take action to promptly correct them. By doing this, Alumina would be taking advantage of the EPA Audit Policy's incentive for self-policing (EPA's Audit Policy, 2000). By voluntarily discovering violations, companies can reduce their EPA penalties by 75%. If this type of self-policing were done by Alumina on a systematic basis, they would receive no penalty for the reported and corrected violation. Even though the independent site study is costly, due to the nature of the aluminum business, Alumina's potential for EPA penalties is very high. Systematic independent site studies would ensure no potential penalty liability and the public relations department could capitalize on the concept that Alumina was a highly responsible company that valued the environment of Lake Dira and the health and well-being of the citizens of Erehwon. If the study results showed compliance with EPA regulations, this fact could be highlighted in public relations releases to reassure the community that Alumina was a responsible, law-abiding company that was devoted to protecting human health and the environment. Regardless of the outcome of the independent site study, Alumina should release a news story stating the facts. Since accusations have been made public, they should discuss the violation discovered by the EPA five years ago, the prompt action by Alumina to correct this problem, their clean environmental regulation record for the past five years and their determination to continue protecting the citizen's of Erehwon by voluntarily monitoring their environmental discharge to guarantee compliance with EPA regulations.
as Broken Hill Proprietary Company and was established in 1885 and its works in three major sectors which are: mineral, petroleum and steel along with that it also works in some other field like transport and logistics, corporate services, strategy and legal .Mainly they were involved in discovery, development, production and marketing of iron ore, copper, oil and gas. Its main headquarter was in Melbourne and gave employment to 30000 individual. Billiton was formed in 1860 in Netherlands and it
steel. In case of minerals and petroleum market it includes the production of iron ore, copper, nickel, silver, diamonds, oil and gas and other natural resource. It also produces other services like transport and logistics, corporate services, strategy and legal. In The Hague,Netherlands Billiton PLC was formulated in 1860 where it started its first extraction. Earlier focus of this company was on tin mining in Indonesia on the Island of Billiton. Then in 1997 it will joins the membership with FTSE