By H J Taback
''The environmental specialist needs to be proficient to be moral, and extra importantly, informed via widespread participatory workshops with actual global eventualities so as to make definitely the right offerings whilst confronted with environmental dilemmas. This booklet serves as a reference and a source casebook that might current present actual international events and supply views to various environmental eventualities. It provides Read more...
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Loyalty requires the environmental professional to do anything within the bounds of his or her moral principles to protect public health and promote and protect the interests of the firm and client. This means doing one’s utmost to protect the confidentiality of company technology, plans, and strategies, but not to the detriment of public health. For example, a phase I property assessment must represent an exhaustive background paperwork examination and an on-site inspection. Any information that could indicate serious contamination potential must be stated and explained and a clear recommendation for further action given.
Banks and brokerage houses, to earn fees and huge profits, invested in high-risk partnerships that Enron used to hide debts. Then Enron auditor Arthur Anderson, who also served as a consultant and made over $50 million, played along. Finally, Enron attorneys Vinson & Elkins ignored warnings of impropriety from Sherron Watkins and wrote creative special purpose partnerships. Ethical standards regarding conflict of interest were waived at the company, which allowed one senior executive to set up private partnerships and another to order shredding of documents that were under discovery.
12 Environmental Ethics and Sustainability be honest, fair, and accountable) as well as not do other things that might be harmful to others. Moral virtue goes beyond moral duty; moral virtues are not mandatory but something to be aspired to. Certain characteristics of conduct, such as generosity or bravery, are worthy of special praise or admiration. 2 Ethical and Ethically Neutral Values Another term that is relevant to this discussion is values. The terms ethics and values are not interchangeable.