Who Is Responsible For Cleanup Under CERCLA? What is CERCLA? The Comprehensive Environmental Response‚ Compensation‚ and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) 1) The purpose of CERCLA is to make owners and operators of hazardous waste dump sites and contaminated areas‚ as well as their customers‚ responsible for cleanup costs and property damage. 2) CERCLA is also referred to as THE SUPERFUND. It is authorized to a level of 8.5 billion dollars. The funding for CERCLA comes 87% from taxes on the chemical
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Reaction Paper on Enron Case September 9‚ 2013 Summary: Enron’s origins date back to 1985 when it began life as an interstate pipeline company through the merger of Houston Natural Gas and Omaha-based InterNorth. Kenneth Lay‚ the former chief executive officer of Houston Natural Gas‚ became CEO‚ and the next year won the post of chairman. From the pipeline sector‚ Enron began moving into new fields. In 1999‚ the company launched its broadband services unit and Enron Online‚ the company’s website
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1) Who is responsible for assuring IT success at Lenox? We cannot say only one person is responsible for assuring IT success at Lenox. In fact‚ each of the three people mentioned in the case are. James Bennett isn’t blameless because after hiring a new CIO‚ and put new life in the company‚ he disappeared giving her the mission to create a delivery system and to ensure that it properly works meeting the Lenox’s management expectations. On the other hand‚ the CIO‚ Diana Sullivan‚ made a big mistake
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situation at Lehman Brothers from an ethics perspective. What’s your opinion of what happened here? To attribute Lehman’s failure to “unprecedented adverse events in the financial markets” completely overlooks the irresponsible ethical behavior of employees and managers. Students should mention the culture of corruption that existed at Lehman’s and the lack of controls that ultimately resulted in their downfall. An interesting finding was the acceptance of a rule‚ Repo 105‚ that allowed the company
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had a part to do in the demise of Romeo and Juliet. But there are two characters who are the most responsible for the this downfall. Those characters are‚Tybalt and Romeo. There are several reasons why these two characters are the most responsible for the demise of Romeo and Juliet. Some reasons are because Tybalt started the fight that resulted in romeo being banished. In my opinion I believe Romeo is responsible because he acted violently when he killed Tybalt‚ paris‚ and himself‚ and because
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When Romeo finds Juliet asleep without knowledge of her plan he assumes she is dead and ends up killing himself by consuming a deadly potion. When Juliet wakes up to find Romeo dead‚ she stabs herself with Romeo’s dagger. Friar Laurence is most responsible for this tragedy of Romeo and Juliet’s death because he said “In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove‚ to turn
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federal government‚ including a $500‚000 fine for insider trading. Finally‚ Levin and Steven Bedowitz contributed approximately $9 million to a settlement pool to resolve a large class-action lawsuit. Most students conclude that the AMRE executives who participated in the fraud were appropriately
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WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR KING DUNCANS DEATH? In the debate for responsibility for King Duncan’s death it would be typical to consider his murderer Macbeth. A number of factors led him to kill King Duncan. It is evident that he wasn’t entirely responsible. Lady Macbeth and the witches are also to blame as they were partly involved in the regicide. The play Macbeth was written in 1606 by Shakespeare. The play opens with the 3 witches who plan a meeting with Macbeth and Banquo who offer them 3 predictions:
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1. Enron was valued at $2.3 billion when it was formed in July 1985. On August 23‚ 2000‚ its stock was at $90 per share and it had a market capitalization of $65.9 billion. Explain the major business practices that created such dynamic growth in the price of the stock. Enron used many different tactics to inflate their stock prices. The one that sticks out to me is when they signed a 20-year contract with Blockbuster. Early in the contract Blockbuster and Enron parted ways with a null and void
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room / Lack of Ethics Enron at one time was a Fortune 500 company‚ but in truth it was just a fallacy and a lie for what it truly was‚ an ethically bankrupt company that eventually became a bankrupt company. Henry Taylor‚ a 19th century statesman wrote “Falsehood ceases to be falsehood‚ when the truth is not expected to be spoken”. Enron senior management gets a failing grade on truth and disclosure. The purpose of ethics is to enable recognition of how a particular
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