# Professor Tensie Whelan lays out the business case for environmental and climate regulation

1 Faculty News September 17, 2019 ![Ensia Logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/Ensia%20Logo%20192%20x%20144.png?itok=JD7yQ4SA)>

Excerpt from [Ensia](https://ensia.com/articles/from-auto-manufacturers-to-tech-giants-companies-across-the-u-s-are-opposing-rollbacks-on-climate-change-regulations/) -- "'A lot of regulations, when businesses really get down to it, they find it helps them become better managed,' says [Tensie Whelan](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/tensie-whelan), director of the New York University Stern School of Business’s Center for Sustainable Business. 'You not only reduce pollution, but you also reduce your cost.'"

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