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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.

July 17, 2012 | 12:48 PM

RFF’s Center for Energy Economics and Policy has created maps comparing state-level fracking regulations

Via the Washington Post’s Wonkblog, RFF’s Center for Energy Economics and Policy has put together a series of maps visualizing state-level hydraulic fracturing regulations. The map we’ve posted shows which states require drillers to publicly disclose chemicals used during the fracking process.
The center’s website also features maps breaking down state regulation of water withdrawals, required setbacks, wastewater disposal and many other aspects of drilling

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