In First Web Ad, DePasquale Talks Drilling

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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 13, 2011 | 4:44 PM

The latest sign Marcellus Shale drilling will be a major campaign issue next year comes from Democratic Auditor General candidate Eugene DePasquale’s rollout web ad.
DePasquale is a York County state representative, and a former Department of Environmental Protection staffer.
About two minutes into the video, he promises to, “be an advocate for communities impacted by the Marcellus Shale drilling.” Looking into the camera, DePasquale continues, “on day one, I will order a review of how we monitor water pollution, to make certain that the rush for greater corporate profits doesn’t come at the expense of our health, or drinking water, or destroy the character of our communities.”
Here’s the spot: