Business Regulation Simulation
Alumina Inc. is in the business of processing aluminum, operating in over eight countries with the U.S. accounting for up to seventy percent of it sales. One of their working plants operates on Lake Dira, they currently manufacture automotive components, packaging materials, bauxite mining, refining, and aluminum smelting. Five years ago alumina was reported to be in violation of environmental discharge norms in a routine EPA compliance evaluation inspection. Their PAH concentration in the test samples was above the regulated limit. Alumina completed a clean up with orders from the EPA, their then was a follow up audit to which the violation was then reported as corrected. (University of Phoenix, 2007)
Five years later the company is now about to go through in a bit of term oil to which the simulation encompasses. This paper will touch upon the key facts of the situation with in the simulation, environmental regulations concerns, and the legal issues that surround Alumina. Alumina’s values and stakeholders will be established. With the consideration of the alternatives, a recommended solution and evaluation in the context of Alumina’s legal position will be stated as well. (UOP, 2007)
Key Facts, Regulations, and Legal Issues
Alumina has maintained a great environmental regulation compliance record for the past five years. Although everything had been running smooth for Alumina, an article popped up in the local paper in regards to the company being blamed for repeatedly contaminating the waters of Lake Dira with carcinogenic effluents. A woman named Kelly Bates alleges that consumption of the contaminated water is the proximate cause of her ten year old daughter’s leukemia, to which the daughter’s disease may be old as ...