CORE Environmental Foundation Directors

The CORE Environmental Foundation, Inc. ("CORE" = "Consultants, Owners, Regulators, and Enviro-vendors") was founded in 2009 as a non-profit organization.  The founders recognized the challenges facing the California Underground Storage Tank Cleanup Fund (Fund) as a major threat to property owners, operators of gas stations, environmental consulting companies, environmental supply vendors, and environmental regulators in resolving gasoline and fuel contamination from underground storage tanks.  The founders participated in hearings of the State Water Resources Control Board in early 2009, and then in the volunteer work of the advisory committee for the Underground Storage Tank Fund.  They formed the CORE Environmental Foundation to find ways to help bring together the managers of the UST Cleanup Fund, the owners and operators of USTs, and environmental consultants to work collaboratively to understand how more cost-efficient and effective cleanups could be accomplished for the 39 million people in California.  

The December 8, 2009 CORE board meeting in Oakland included the election of the initial CORE officers.  CORE cofounder Jim Jacobs of Environmental Bio-Systems, Inc. of Mill Valley was elected President; Ami Adini of Ami Adini and Associates of Los Angeles was elected Vice President; Fred Ousey of Enviro-Tech Services Company of Martinez became Membership Chair and CORE co-founder Jim Arnold of The Arnold Law Practice of San Francisco took on the duties of our Secretary/Treasurer.  In early 2011, Dwayne Ziegler of The Reynolds Group in Tustin (Orange County) and Bob Clark-Riddell of Pangea Environmental in Oakland were elected to the Board of Directors.