ABSTRACT
The corporate headquarters mission involves coordination of the company’s strategic environmental decisions. Activities such as tracking environmental legislation, evaluating potential economic impacts, and coordination with lobbying efforts naturally fall within this realm. Likewise, the establishment of corporate environmental goals and coordinating and maintaining the corporation’s key permitting and regulatory compliance framework falls within the realm of a corporate environmental staff mission. However, the hard realities of implementation at the plant/operations level bring up a series of questions and differences in environmental management philosophies.
