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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 31, 2011 | 3:12 PM

We linked to this in Drill Bits, but if you didn’t catch it, here’s an article on yesterday’ zombie drilling protest in Dimock.

DIMOCK TWP. – Their faces painted a ghostly white and their shirts stained red, area residents and activists warned others about what they believe happens when “gas drilling goes bad.”
About two dozen people dressed as zombies and other creatures met at the Dimock Baptist Church on Sunday to protest natural gas drilling impacts and, in particular, the decision by the state Department of Environmental Protection to let Cabot Oil and Gas Corp. stop supplying fresh bottled and bulk water to township residents whose well water has been tainted with methane.
…The protesters don’t agree with either DEP or Cabot. At the church, they passed out cups of “Kabot Kool-Aid” and ration coupons for one glass of water. At the church’s door, a fog machine simulated air pollution and a bottle of Asian fish sauce represented the odor from the mud caused by drilling, residents said.