There is ample evidence in the literature
by Chan, Ionescu-Somers, Rothenberg, and others
indicating that above and beyond all other pursuits,
achieving regulatory compliance is the primary
and principal role of the environmental manager
in industry. Markusson enriches the related body
of knowledge by exploring the characteristic of
“environmental championing,” defined as “any
effort made by an (individual or collective) actor
in a firm to promote environmental issues.”
However, until fairly recently, there had been
little that discussed the professional goal of the
environmental manager as an independent and
commonly held meaning of the profession itself.