North Dakota’s Health Department for the second time this decade is pledging to provide easily accessible information on oilfield and agriculture-related spills.
The promise comes after a revelation last week that a 2015 liquid natural gas pipeline leak that was much bigger than publicly reported.
According to records obtained by The Associated Press, the agency logged more than 8,000 “reported releases” since 2014 but did not make public updates on a spill’s severity or its cleanup status.
State Environmental Quality Chief Dave Glatt says the agency is working to revamp its “webpage to let people search so they don’t have to ask us about it.”
The agency made a similar pledge in 2013 following an oil pipeline spill that has been called one of the biggest onshore spills in U.S. history.
