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Scott Detrow is a congressional correspondent for NPR. He also co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.

Detrow joined NPR in 2015 to cover the presidential election. He focused on the Republican side of the 2016 race, spending time on the campaign trail with Donald Trump, and also reported on the election's technology and data angles.

Detrow worked as a statehouse reporter for member stations WITF in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and KQED in San Francisco, California. He has also covered energy policy for NPR's StateImpact project, where his reports on Pennsylvania's hydraulic fracturing boom won a DuPont-Columbia and national Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013.

October 26, 2011 | 1:03 PM

Penn State Public Broadcasting has launched a new site, called ExploreShale.org” credit=”

There’s a new Marcellus Shale site on the block, and it’s worth checking out.
The folks at Penn State Public Broadcasting have built an interactive website called ExploreShale.org. The page answers basic questions about hydraulic fracturing, and who regulates it.
Want to know the difference between perforation and fracturing, and production? You can scroll through the graphic of a well pad to learn all the steps involved in extracting gas, and what exactly is going on deep underground.