Rachel Maddow Covers Pennsylvania Methane Migration Problems

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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.

August 8, 2012 | 10:26 AM

Scott Detrow / StateImpact Pennsylvania

A Leroy Township, Bradford County resident lights a sample of methane gas on fire. The gas has been bubbling into puddles and creeks for more than two months.

MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Show highlighted ongoing methane migration problems in Bradford and Tioga County last night, airing StateImpact Pennsylvania’s video documenting flammable gas puddles in Leroy Township.
The segment also featured an interview with StateImpact Texas’ Terrence Henry, who has been doing a lot of solid reporting on how deep injection wells are causing earthquakes.
Keep reading to watch video of the segment.

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