ENFORCEMENT AND LIABILITY 1. Your client, Jack Davis, director of The News Express, a big metropolitan newspaper
ENFORCEMENT AND LIABILITY1. Your client, Jack Davis, director of The News Express, a big metropolitan newspaper, comes into your office seeking advice as to compliance with environmental requirements and standards. The News Express generates ink from its printing process and emits a wastewater discharge into a local water body. Where would you obtain necessary information about the legality of these activities? Explain.2. Say, the EPA promulgated a set of regulations that mandate a new disposal method for waste ink – with an advanced treatment. The EPA did not publish a proposed rule nor did it allow for public comment. Compliance with the new regulations will cost The News Express over $1 million. Jack Davis decides he cannot afford to comply with the new rules and continues to dispose of the waste ink by the old method – sending it to a landfill. The EPA initiates and enforcement action against the newspaper. Davis comes into your office and asks what options he has to manage the situation. Advise him.