Susan Zakin

If you thought anti-war protesters were pissed off at George Bush, you haven’t met Friends of the Dugong. A few weeks ago, the Okinawa Environmental Network sponsored the first annual conference on the military and the environment in Okinawa, Japan. Delegates from Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and Vietnam met......

Photos by Ted Soqui THE MAIN DRAG OF WILMINGTON, CALIFORNIA, looks as if someone transformed a 19th-century Eastern seaport village into a latter-day Tijuana but forgot to finish the job. On one corner is a clapboard house built in the style of the Eastern shore of Delaware, where Phineas Banning,......

Last week’s $50 million settlement between the Port of Los Angeles and the communities of San Pedro and Wilmington is "a nice down payment on dealing with the environmental impacts of the port, but the bill is nowhere near paid in full," said Noel Park of the San Pedro and......

Teresa Savaikie slammed her Ford Escort to a halt on the parkway’s outside lane, near the spot where a chunky construction worker was hauling up water from a riverbed. Ignoring the blaring horns of outraged suburban motorists, the barefoot woman, blond and good-looking in a classic Southern California way, approached......

THE PHRASE "DON'T GLOAT" COULD be heard wherever Republicans gathered last week, especially among right-wing columnists like AM radio talk-show host Mike Gallagher, Rush Limbaugh's apparent heir. Phil Clapp of the National Environmental Trust (NET) and a well-connected Beltway environmentalist, said the Republican National Committee actually sent out a "Don't......