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SkyTruth Offers Federal Pollution Report Database For Public Download
[June 9, 2014 - Shepherdstown, WV] An environmental conservation and mapping group is hosting an updated database of the most recent federal pollution reports until public access to the designated source is restored. West Virginia-based SkyTruth tracks pollution and environmental issues through remote sensing and big data such as this nationwide pollution report database from the U.S. Coast Guard’s National Response Center (NRC) for oil and hazardous materials spills.
Public access to data from the NRC has been offline since February 21, 2014, reportedly due to an extensive rebuild required to comply with new federal cyber-security requirements. NRC officials told SkyTruth it could take up to a year to fully restore the website, but in the interim their staff would provide a weekly update containing all the pollution reports received during the calendar year at an alternate website.
Until the NRC establishes a regular update schedule at this alternate website, SkyTruth will receive updated copies of the database directly from NRC staff and post them as-is for public download. Our most recent version contains all the reports received through June 8, 2014. Our staff is working to incorporate these changes into the SkyTruth Alerts system to restore regular, automated email notification of pollution incidents to Alerts subscribers.
Anyone witnessing an oil spill, chemical release, or maritime security incident can report it by calling the NRC hotline at 1-800-424-8802
Note: SkyTruth is providing this data as a public service and assumes no liability or responsibility for the information contained in the linked files. The linked file is an unaltered copy of the data provided to us in .xlsx format by NRC staff.
Questions and media inquiries can be directed to SkyTruth Communications Director David Manthos ([email protected]).
Source: http://blog.skytruth.org/2014/06/current-nrc-database.html
