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. (Eric Keto/Alaska’s Energy Desk)
Cleaning up after a major oil spill is a huge challenge. After the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, for example, 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 degrees and he’s not