Drill Bits: Colbert Tweaks Drillers, Chesapeake Doubles Down, and Commission Prepares to Vote

• 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.

Chesapeake Energy is doubling down on natural gas drilling, investing $1 billion in drilling infrastructure and technology.
Expect legal challenges to New York’s new drilling regulations.
Governor Corbett’s Marcellus Shale Advisory Commission votes on recommendations this Friday, and issues its report next week. (We’ll have much more on this in the coming days.)
And Stephen Colbert, who interviewed Governor Tom Ridge about fracking a few weeks ago, pokes fun at energy companies’ PR efforts in Pennsylvania. (That would be you, Terry the Frackosaurus.)

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