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“I need more facts from them on how quickly they responded and all the things they did. Did they
 do all the things they could have done to protect public health." - Alexis Strauss 
 

The above sounds great. Too bad Alexis Strauss didn't apply that to Shell Oil (see Problem Defined). Just like her picture, Alexis Strauss is missing in action on this issue. The US EPA was the first agency I contacted back in early July 2005. They did absolutely nothing other than contact Shell and let them know of my complaint. No follow up. No contact. No response. I sent a letter on May 12, 2006 to Alexis Strauss, Director Water Division Region 9 and again absolutely nothing. No response. No acknowledgement what-so-ever. These directors cash very fat paychecks. What do we as the public get for it when our concerns and reports of environmental problems get ignored? Since when did an alleged environmental crime 957 feet from a clean water aquifer become insignificant enough not to respond to it?

 

If Alexis Strauss wants to actually read that letter, she can click here.

 

Contact Info: Alexis Strauss, Director Water Division, USEPA Region 9, 75 Hawthorne Street, Mail Code WTR-1, San Francisco, CA 94105, PH: (415) 972-3572, Email: strauss.alexis@epa.gov

 

Ron Majeski, Agent

Ron Majeski is a local Los Angeles investigative EPA agent. My last contact with him was in September 2005. Ron Majeski is the one to tell me the EPA had an ongoing investigation regarding Shell's extraordinary failures of its "UST" gasoline containment systems. The EPA seemed to have lost interest in the Texaco sump hoist abandonment issue when I notified Shell of the problem, by asking Shell's C.E.O. to fix it. The rest is history. Shell had no intention of fixing anything. Shell was too busy with a clandestine program to sell every service station in the United States so it wouldn't have to.  

 

Contact Info: Ron Majeski, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, (he either works here or at a satellite to this one, his original contact numbers no longer work) Southern California Field Office, 600 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1460, Los Angeles, CA, 90017, PH: (626) 583-6740, FX: (626) 583-7533

 

Greg Schulty

 

Greg Schulty works the California border in San Diego preventing and catching environmental crimes being committed internationally. He was the first one to characterize the wastes left in service stations as "toxic waste" and the act of abandoning the garage sumps, car hoists and hydraulic fluid as an "environmental crime" that should be pursued and prosecuted. Schulty put me in contact with Ron Majeski, as Los Angeles is the closest EPA office to Satish Chopra's station in Corona.