Another Local Drilling Ban

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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.

October 28, 2011 | 10:19 AM

The latest municipality to ban natural gas drilling within its borders: Forest Hills, Allegheny County.
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Borough council last week approved a ban on natural gas drilling in the borough.
The borough is the latest local municipality to ban natural gas drilling within its borders. The city of Pittsburgh, West Homestead, Baldwin Borough and Wilkinsburg have passed bans on hydraulic fracking. Other municipalities in the region are considering similar bans.
Forest Hills Mayor Marty O’Malley understands the concerns of his neighbors.
“This [ban] is a mirror image of the Pittsburgh ban. It’s our obligation as elected officials to protect all of our local citizens,” Mr. O’Malley said. “My support of the ban was based on the fact that there is scientific evidence that this hydraulic fracking causes problems with the environment and problems with health.”