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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 19, 2011 | 2:19 PM

Checking in on our neighbors to the north… New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation has commissioned an advisory panel to take a look at natural gas drilling issues.
Unlike Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission, the New York committee is meeting in private.

Innovation Trail reports:

As New York wrestles with how to regulate gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) is bringing together people from both sides of the hydrofracking debate.
Sounds like things could get pretty heated, right? Wanna take a look inside?
Too bad, the public’s not invited.
The new 17-member advisory panel met with the DEC for the first time yesterday. It’s made up of gas industry representatives, environmentalists, and local government officials.
They’re charged with making sure that state and local governments have enough resources to handle everything that comes along with the controversial drilling technique, from regulations and permits, to roads an infrastructure.
The panel will convene over the next few months, and its recommendations are expected by early November. However, all of those recommendations will need legislative approval.
Robert Moore is the executive director of Environmental Advocates of New York and one of the panel members. He believes it will be a daunting task to make sure drilling is done right.