ABSTRACT
The environmental regulatory movement in the United States actually began several decades before the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and started with the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in 1947 and the Air Pollution Control Act of 1955. The rest of the countries in Latin America have very vague environmental regulations without any specific guidelines. The European Union’s constantly changing regulations on the environment are continuing to make it harder and harder to conduct business on the European continent. Mexico’s voluntary environmental auditing program was introduced by the Federal Environmental Attorney General in response to a series of industrial disasters in Mexico which showed there was a serious lack of trained environmental and safety inspectors. The rapid industrialization of the Asian/Pacific Rim has come at an extraordinary pace and has given Japan, Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan a very modern and westernized style of living.
