Times goes enviro in Biz

Abigail Goldman has covered the retail beat for the Times' Business section even though she loathes shopping. They are moving her to a newly created beat "focused on the crossroads of corporate America and the environmental movement." The memo from Business Editor Davan Maharaj:

Abigail Goldman, who for the last eight years has called herself the only retail reporter in the country who hates shopping, will shift her attention from consumers' greenbacks to corporate green. She'll help the Business section launch a new beat focused on the crossroads of corporate America and the environmental movement.

She'll examine corporations that hold themselves out as good stewards of the environment, businesses that claim to make "green" products and the companies that purport to help individuals and communities be more environmentally responsible. As part of this new assignment, Abbe will work with colleagues covering energy, politics and other topics.

Abbe is a homegrown product of the Los Angeles Times, having started at the paper in 1993 as a summer intern in what was then called View. She later worked in the San Fernando Valley, San Gabriel Valley and several points in between.

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