Desirée Plata, PhD, is an environmental chemist at MIT studying the fate of chemicals that have escaped into the environment. She's working on new technologies and materials that don't harm the environment and human health. Desirée is also director of the MIT Methane Network, which works to reduce levels of the powerful greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
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