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Mosaic Fertilizer Case Study

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1. The EPA has a major impact on manufacturers through enforcing its regulations. Go to the EPA website and review EPA’s settlement with Mosaic fertilizer, LLC: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/mosaic-fertilizer-llc-settlement Answer the following questions. All the answers are on the webpage shown above. You may answer with direct quotations from the website, but cite the source properly: a. What was the total quantity of hazardous waste involved? “An estimated 60 billion pounds of hazardous waste” was involved (“Mosaic Fertilizer”). b. List three types of waste (including the chemical names) involved. The types of waste involved were phosphoric acid, fluorosilicic acid, and ammonia. c. What were the dollar amounts of the penalties …show more content…

Therefore, unless the courts will enforce the oral contract due to the unusual case, White is not able to collect because the garage is real property, and deals involving real property must be in writing. 3. a. Based on the excerpts from the article by Koen (handed out in class and posted on Blackboard in the Class Handouts Folder under Resources), what kinds of behavior can be legally considered sexual harassment? Give examples from the cases cited. b. Based on what you learn from the article, how should a company handle sexual harassment? Consider two situations: (i) before any complaints about sexual harassment have been made; (ii) when a specific claim of sexual harassment is made, for example, a female employee complains to the Human Resources Office that her male supervisor several times has made lewd comments to her and has touched her in an inappropriate way. a. Legally, making a continuous pattern of discrimination through verbal abuse against men or women can be considered sexual harassment. For example, in the Delgado vs. Lehman case, he would commonly call women “babes” and interrupt women when they were speaking. Verbal abuse can also include racial slurs. In the Hicks vs. Gates Rubber Co. case, a black female was treated poorly, such as being forced to jump off of a five-foot loading dock. This same female was also called “Buffalo Butt.”

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