Coal ash contains lead, arsenic, and mercury โย and it's mostly unregulated
Can science find solutions where policy lags before the damage deepens?
Laura Mast
Environmental Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Laura Mast is an NSF Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She studies resource recovery, specifically at extract rare earth elements from coal fly ash, a waste material produced from burning coal for electricity. She was recently the lead organizer for ComSciCon-Atlanta, a workshop training graduate students in science communication, and she runs a start up that streamlines voting at STEM competitions.
Can science find solutions where policy lags before the damage deepens?
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