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CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
Statement of the Problem
In the past ten years a series of acts passed by the
United States Congress and by all fifty state legislatures
has generated a nationwide effort toward improving the qual-
ity of the physical environment in which Americans live by
reducing several orders of magnitude the rate of pollution
of our atmosphere, our water resources, and our land. In
addition, many areas are controlled by regional, county, or
city regulations. 2
All private enterprises are feeling the impact of this
effort. In addition to the traditional concern with economic
changes, managers today must also be acutely aware of changes
in the social, political, technological and physical segments
of the environment in which they operate. Such changes not
only can affect the corporate performances, but can have a
life or death impact on some companies. Responses to this
impact have lead to sizable investments in new equipment and
'Harold W. Henry, Pollution Control: Corporate Responses
(New York, 1974), p. 4.
2William D. Hurley, Environmental Legislation (Spring-
field, 1971), p. 12.1
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Thibodeaux, Mary Shepherd. The state of the art in environmental pollution control and impact analysis, dissertation, May 1976; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332517/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .