Starmes Inc

Starmes Inc. is a petrochemical company. The manager of the company was being questioned by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to the factory releasing criteria pollutants into the atmosphere. He admitted to the EPA that the company had falsified its financial records and tampered with the monitoring equipment. He also stated that the company would take suitable measures to correct it. Based on this scenario, the EPA's Final Policy on Penalty Reductions encouraged Starmes Inc. to engage in ________.

A) environmental policy making
B) restricting pollution
C) reducing emission charges
D) environmental self-auditing