Why do we need environmental policies?Environmental policies are suggestions that companies can voluntarily take to decrease their environmental impact. Unselected Market capitalism is driven by short-term gain with no incentives to minimize environmental impacts. Unselected This is not correct; given our technological advances, we don't need many environmental policies. Unselected Companies rely on environmental policies to let them extract resources from public lands with little regulatory oversight. Unselected Environmental policies are limited in what they can cover, so they have little impact on the day-to-day functioning of companies