Vermont Set To Ban Fracking

• 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.

Vermont is set to become the first state to completely ban hydraulic fracturing within its borders.
Other states – notably Pennsylvania neighbors New York and New Jersey – have enacted  official or de facto moratoriums temporarily halting the practice, but Vermont would be the first state to ban it, if Governor Peter Shumlin signs the bill.
As the AP reports, Vermont isn’t sitting on top of much natural gas, but the legislation goes beyond fracking. According to Platts, the legislation would prohibit out-of-state drillers from disposing fracking fluid, brine and other waste  in Vermont.

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