Have You Tried To Track Down Fracking Chemical Information?

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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.

August 12, 2011 | 4:51 PM

Earlier today, StateImpact reported on how Pennsylvania lags behind four other states, when it comes to the public availability of information about fracking chemicals used at each well.
Pennsylvania is one of five states requiring companies to disclose what chemicals they’re using during natural gas drilling. Arkansas, Wyoming, Michigan and (soon) Texas all post this information on the Internet. But in Pennsylvania, it’s stashed away in a regional Department of Environmental Protection file. You need to file a Right-To-Know request to see the data.
Have you ever filed a request to see the information? What was the process like? We want to hear about your experience. Send an email to sdetrow@stateimpact.org, and we’ll be in touch.