From novelist to climate crusader: How one woman is working to put a stop to natural gas
Audrey Schulman stood in the middle of the sidewalk, her eyes fixed on the gas detector in her left hand. It was mid-August, and she hovered above a steel grate alongside Highland Avenue in Somerville, Mass. The detector was connected to a black wand with a cupped end, which she pushed into the ground like a toilet plunger, taking a reading.