One Alaskan’s quest to transform how we clean up oil spills

Kevin Kennedy works on a piece of one of his oil spill cleanup devices. (Photo by Eric Keto, Alaska’s Energy Desk – Anchorage)Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a huge challenge. For example, after the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, the federal government estimates responders recovered only about a third of the nearly 5 billion barrels of oil released.
One Alaskan thinks he’s figured out a better way to do it. He doesn’t work in a lab, he doesn’t have any fancy