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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.

January 3, 2012 | 2:44 PM

Well, here’s an interesting anti-fracking ad airing in New York, where officials are debating new rules allowing natural gas drilling within the Empire State’s portion of the Marcellus Shale:

The ad is airing in Albany in the days leading up to Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo’s “State of the State” address.