A Drilling Panorama, And A Road Trip To Canada

• Scott Detrow
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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.

Ever wonder what the inside of a natural gas drilling rig looks like? Click over to Pipeline to find out.
The folks at the Post-Gazette’s Marcellus Shale-focused website have built an interactive 360-degree panorama of an active drilling rig during three phases of production. A visit to the site will show you how the landscape changes, when a well goes from the drilling to the fracking to the pumping stage of gas extraction.
In other energy reporting news, the Innovation Trail’s Emma Jacobs is embarking on a two-week trek through Canada, to explain just how much of New York State’s energy comes from massive hydroelectric dams north of the border. (Innovation Trail is a collaborative effort between five upstate New York public radio stations.

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