#MSCPhilly – The Marcellus Shale Coalition's "Shale Gas Insight" Conference

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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.

September 7, 2011 | 8:35 AM

Good morning from Philadelphia.
I’m sitting in the Philadelphia Convention Center’s main ballroom, listening to former Governor Tom Ridge give the kickoff address at the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s “Shale Gas Insight” conference. His early argument – the United States has no energy policy. “It’s a mirage,” Ridge says.
I’m tweeting Ridge’s speech over at our Twitter account, @StateImpactPA. We’ll cover later speeches here at the StateImpact website, but for now, catch the action on Twitter.