BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Environmental Audit
- the regular systematic gathering of information to monitor the effectiveness of environmental policies. An environmental audit now often forms part of an organization's environmental management systems, and is concerned with checking conformity with legislative requirements and environmental standards such as ISO 14001 (see ISO 14000), as well as with company policy. The audit may also cover potential improvements in environmental performance and systems.
Additional Resources
- State adoption of environmental audit initiatives
- An environmental audit is a voluntary internal review of all of a facility's operations and practices that relate to its environmental performance. Environmental audits can be designed to verify compliance with environmental regulations, evaluate the effectiveness of environmental management systems, and assess environmental risks at a facility. Given the potential...
- Research articles 2006-01-01
- Rutgers, EPA agree on unique audit.(Rutgers University environmental audit)(Brief Article)
- New Brunswick, N.J. - Rutgers University will conduct a complete environmental audit of its campuses through an agreement with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The self-audit is the first of its kind in the country. It allows the university to locate potential...
- Research articles 2001-12-24
- Consider doing your own environmental audit.
- Consider doing your own environmental audit. Companies that do so will get a break from EPA, which will pilot a test program that lets companies pay for environmental inspections done in-house or by outside firms. Entering into a deal with EPA is l Consider...
- Research articles 1998-12-10
- CVRD launches environmental audit scheme
- Companhia Vale do Rio Doce CVRD, the Brazilian state-owned Group, has started an environmental audit scheme as part of a 4-year (1991-95) environmental programme, launched in 1991, which aims to invest $330 million in 85 projects in all operational areas, Mauricio Reis, CVRD's environment general manager,...
- Research articles 1993-02-01
- Consider conducting voluntary environmental audit.
- Consider conducting voluntary environmental audit. Companies that confess to EPA violations will avoid fines and get more time to fix problems. Deadline for violation reporting will increase from 10 days to one month after self-inspection is complete. However, confessions won't prevent potential lawsuits from state governments...
- Research articles 1999-04-08
- Creating and Implementing an Environmental Action Plan
- Increasingly, individuals are making a concerted effort to change their lifestyles to decrease their "carbon footprint," and the pressure on industry to follow suit has never been greater. Whatever industry you are in, your customers and other key stakeholders will want to know what you are doing to meet your...
- Articles 2007-11-14
- Audit law amended to suit U.S. EPA
- HEATHER ALEY AUSTIN Ohio companies may finally be in position to take advantage of a state law aimed at helping them comply with environmental regulations. Ohio's Environmental Audit Privileges and Immunity Law, enacted in March 1997, has rarely been HEATHER ALEY AUSTIN Ohio companies may...
- Research articles 1998-08-17
- EPA adopts environmental audit policy
- As of January 22, 1996, a new Environmental Protection Agency EPA policy has been in effect that strongly encourages companies to conduct environmental audits and correct any violations uncovered during those audits. Under the new policy, companies that conduct their own audits will face smaller monetary penalties if a violation...
- Research articles 1996-02-01
- State environmental audits offer immunity, privilege to polluters.
- Environmentalists and plaintiff lawyers are fighting against passage of state laws granting immunity or privilege to polluters who report their own pollution. So-called environmental audit bills stalled or failed in four states, but two states extend limited immunity from civil liability, seven states make the corporate audits privileged information protected...
- Research articles 1996-12-01
- More firms will assess environmental impact.
- Byline:Samantha Levine Companies of all types and sizes increasingly will perform environmental self-audits as a matter of course within the next 10 years. In the past, only big corporations bothered to do the examinations. But now investors and lenders, not just the Environmental ...
- Research articles 2000-08-15
- Waste Generator Briefs.(Syracuse University agrees to conduct environmental audit, Pennsylvania to report ground-level ozone pollution, recycling awards and other news)(Briefs)
- Environmental Management Environmental Management
- Research articles 2002-11-25
- EPA challenges privilege issue in environmental self-audits
- An environmental audit is a selfinitiated, voluntary inspection of a company's facilities and records to evaluate and identify compliance or noncompliance with environmental regulations. To encourage more companies to conduct these audits voluntarily, many states have enacted evidentiary privilege to protect information obtained during these engagements. CPAs need to be...
- Research articles 1998-08-01
- Study may lead to change in environmental laws
- A study of marginal wells in Osage County could provide the information needed to thwart, and maybe change, environmental laws that some argue are not cost productive, officials with the Oklahoma Commission on Marginally Producing Oil and Gas Wells said Thursday. The study, entitled The Osage Environmental Audit,...
- Research articles 1999-04-30
- Tastes great! More polluting! States try to protect voluntary "environmental audits."
- Environmental agencies used to consider beer brewers good people. The EPA thought brewers emitted only tiny amounts of volatile organic compounds VOCS, an air pollutant. But Coors Brewing Co. discovered otherwise. Coors conducted an 18-month, $1.5 million environmental audit that found that the beer-making process is about 17 times more...
- Research articles 1996-01-01
- Sony awards Sun Chemical 100 percent marks in environmental audit
- Sony Corporation has named the Sun Chemical Hartmann liquid inks plant at Niedernhausen, Germany as a certified Green Partner. Sony now audits all its suppliers and their subcontractors worldwide on an annual basis and recently audited one of its major packaging suppliers, Dunapack Paper & Packaging of Nyiregyhaza, Hungary....
- Research articles 2003-12-01
- Auditors keep SRP in compliance with regulations. (Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District's environmental audits)(1997 Risk Management Honor Roll)
- Managing environmental and workplace safety are two sides of the same coin at Salt River Project. The utility's risk management department oversees SRP's Environmental, Health and Safety Audit Division, which is charged with ensuring the company complManaging environmental and workplace safety are two sides of the...
- Research articles 1997-04-14
- BP Chemicals' compliance "a benchmark"
- The report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution HMIP of its trial large-scale environmental audit of the BP Chemicals Ltd. production site at Hull, north-east England, concludes that, "The good quality of environmental protection managemenThe report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution HMIP of its trial...
- Research articles 1996-02-01
- New EPA Audit Policy Yields Improved Results
- A NEW POLICY adopted by Environmental Protection Agency in December 1995 that provides incentives for companies that audit or otherwise voluntarily disclose and promptly correct regulatory violations "is having the desired effect on corporate be A NEW POLICY adopted by Environmental Protection Agency in December ...
- Research articles 1997-02-03
- EPA praises UC for internal audit
- University of California will pay $9,750 in fines to settle some environmental regulation violations uncovered three years ago in an internal audit, the federal Environmental Protection Agency announced this week. Despite the fines, the EPA gave the university high marks for its initiative in conducting the audit,...
- Research articles 2004-11-12
- Agency announces new self-audit protocols
- Nash, James L Occupational Hazards 07-01-2000 Agency announces new self-audit protocols Byline: Nash, James L Volume: 62 Number: 7 ISSN: 00297909 Publication Date: 07-01-2000 Page: 14 Type: Periodical Language: English As part of its ongoing effort to encourage selfassessment programs, the Environmental Protection Agency EPA released five additional...
- Research articles 2000-07-01
