New Environmental Chief Named for Port of L.A.
The Port of Los Angeles has a new director of its environmental management division--Donald Rice, who has been the port’s second-ranking environmental officials for the past 10 years.
Rice replaces Lillian Kawasaki, who Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley appointed recently as manager of the city’s new Environmental Affairs Department.
Rice, 45, of Huntington Beach, joined the port in 1974 as a marine environmental assistant and became its assistant environmental management director in 1980. During that time, he participated in dozens of scuba dives aimed at gathering biological samples and planting kelp beds along the breakwater.
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