COLORADO SPRINGS
A tour of PFAS-erasing demonstration projects at Peterson Space Force Base leaves an indelible impression: It’s going to take massive amounts of innovation and energy to solve Colorado’s “forever chemicals” problem.
But PFAS destruction expert Chris Higgins of the Colorado School of Mines, where some of the most promising techniques were launched, wants people who see the Space Force cleanup sites to come away with another impression: hope. Some of the state’s top science and engineering minds are hard at work on the best methods for destroying toxic PFAS, and they are building a menu of options for places like Peterson Space Force that have historic contamination from firefighting foam…