South Fayette Manager May Take Gas Drilling Job

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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.

October 20, 2011 | 4:10 PM

The manager of an Allegheny County township engaged in a major legal battle with Range Resources is stepping down…to possibly take a job in the natural gas industry.
The Post-Gazette reports.

Mike Hoy, the South Fayette manager for nearly 11 years, announced Monday night that he is resigning from the township, effective Nov. 11.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette received reports after the meeting that Mr. Hoy is planning to take a job at MarkWest Liberty, the natural gas processing firm. In an email Wednesday, he wrote, “I have not officially accepted any employment at this time.”
His departure comes amid the township’s battle over Marcellus Shale development and the legal challenge by gas firm Range Resources of the municipality’s natural gas drilling regulations. MarkWest is a strategic partner with Range Resources.
Mr. Hoy could become the second township administrator to resign this year to take a job with MarkWest Liberty, an affiliate of drilling firms Range Resources and Chesapeake Energy that processes and transports natural gas extracted from the Marcellus Shale.