Laura is a freelance journalist who covers science, technology and the environment. She has a graduate degree in science communication from UC Santa Cruz and her work has appeared in Smithsonian, Audubon, Wired, and elsewhere. Laura lives in Portland and enjoys hiking, surfing, climbing and generally exploring Maine.
Many of the roughly 500 Maine public schools on public drinking water could have dangerously high levels of lead, not know it, and have no legal obligation to test for it.