Hazardous Homes in Herculaneum 2020 Edition 100% guarantee grade A

1. Identify the values and describe the attitudes that have contributed to pollution problems like those at Herculaneum. How would you feel if you lived in Herculaneum? 2. Do individuals inside the company, now or in the past, bear responsibility for causing the environmental damage at Herculaneum, or is it only the company as a whole? Is that responsibility shared by anyone outside the company? Should families who moved to Herculaneum have known better? 3. Who should pay the costs of cleaning up Herculaneum—the company? The town? The state of Missouri? The federal government? In general, whose responsibility is it to clean up the country’s hazardous pollution sites and waste dumps? 4. Was either the government or Doe Run morally required to buy the contaminated homes? Should anything else be done for those families? What, if anything, should be done for the town now? 5. Is Herculaneum better off without the smelter, or should environmental standards have been waived in order to save jobs? Should the company have invested in the technology necessary to bring its lead smelter into compliance with environmental standards?