Christopher Higgins, associate professor of civil and environment engineering at Colorado School of Mines, was recently featured in a Grand Rapids Press/MLive.com article about a Michigan town whose drinking water may have been contaminated with poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). Higgins co-authored a 2014 study on the ability of conventional water treatment plants to filter out PFAS, a class of chemicals widely used in industrial and commercial applications since the 1950s. From the story: Higgins' 2014 study in the International Water Association journal analyzed the effect ....