Flooding in 2011 scoured the river bottom and exposed the buried pipeline, causing it to break along a stretch of river popular with anglers and boaters.
Many Montanan politicians are outraged over the oil spill in the Yellowstone river near Glendive, but few have had as personal an experience with the spill as State Senator Matt Rosendale.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A new report to Congress says pipeline spills caused by flooding dumped 2.4 million gallons of crude oil and other hazardous liquids into U.S. waterways over the past two decades.