The Latest On Dimock Protests

• 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.

StateImpact’s Susan Phillips spent the day in Dimock, Susquehanna County, covering anti-drilling protests. She spoke to WHYY’s Newsworks Tonight about what happened, when Josh Fox and other “fractivists” arrived with a truck of clean water.
The drilling opponents, which also included actor Mark Ruffalo, were there to protest the Department of Environmental Protection’s recent decision allowing Cabot Oil and Gas to stop providing water to Dimock residents whose well water had been contaminated by excess methane. Under the Rendell Administration, DEP had found Cabot responsible for the methane migration. The company contends it’s happening naturally.
Are you trying to catch up on why Dimock has become a flash point for drilling opponents? Start by reading our primer.
Here’s Susan’s interview with Newsworks Tonight.

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