Justice Through Citizen Science: How ‘Chemical Fingerprinting’ Could Change Public Health • The Revelator

When residents of Tonawanda, N.Y., began falling sick with cancer, they launched their own investigation. It led to legal action and the closure of a polluting coal plant, but the work didn't end there.

University at Buffalo PhD candidate Kaitlin Ordiway (left) prepares to run a sample in a secondary ion mass spectrometer. UB chemistry professor Joseph Gardella (right) is leading the Tonawanda Coke soil study. (Photo by Douglas Levere / University at Buffalo)
Justice Through Citizen Science: How ‘Chemical Fingerprinting’ Could Change Public Health • The Revelator