• Countless environmental entrepreneurs are stepping up to offer solutions to the Deepwater Horizon crisis in the Gulf of Mexico.
• C.I. Agent Solutions, a Kentucky-based company that makes oil-blocking polymer, has created a technology that stops the oil by changing it from liquid to solid. When the polymer and oil meet, the oil becomes a non-toxic rubber-like material, making it easy to pick up.
• A Florida-based company, C.W. Roberts Contracting,, takes a more basic approach, using hay as an absorbent.
• While the oil industry has invested billions of dollars in finding new oil, hardly any new research or improvements have been been made or funded in the realm of regulation and cleanup.

Facts & Figures

• A YouTube demonstration of the oil-absorbing hay has gotten over 1.5 million hits.

Best Quote

“Traditional cleanup companies sell time and material. Our method takes less time and uses less material so they don’t like it.”  - Dan Parker, President Of C.I. Agent Solutions