/fybsfzke.JPG "Mark Abramson, who served shape L.A. environment, dies at 56")
When Mark Abramson was a young intern at the environmental nonprofit Mend the Bay in the mid-1990s, he was offered the notably dull assignment of reviewing once-a-year stormwater allow reports for all 88 towns in Los Angeles County and monitoring their compliance.
He went about the task with attribute gusto,