1. What are the social or ethical issues in this case?
2. Are the ethical issues in this case those of the firm or of Bryan? Discuss.
3. Assess the corporate social responsibility of the firm based on the comments of Bill Gates, the plant supervisor.
4. What ethical responsibility, if any, does Bryan have in this case? What should he do? Why?

Bryan was recently hired by a large chemical company to oversee the construction of production facilities to produce a new product. Gossett Chemical Company developed a new industrial lubricant that it felt it could produce at a price close to those of its competitors. The plant to manufacture the lubricant was built on land adjacent to the East River. Gossett Chemical had already applied for and received the necessary permit to dump waste materials from the process into the river. Several other chemical plants in the near vicinity are also releasing waste materials into the river.