NY Fracking Hearing Draws 800 People

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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.

November 17, 2011 | 10:42 AM

Innovation Trail has the details on yesterday’s New York State fracking hearings:

The Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) held the first of four public hearings on hydrofracking Wednesday.
More than 800 people descended on the vacant Dansville Middle School to rally both for and against the controversial natural gas drilling technique.
Anti-fracking advocates outnumbered pro-drilling voices by a roughly 80/20 split.
Many pro-drilling speakers were booed by the crowd, while anti-drilling speakers earned hearty applause.