Feds: Less Shale, But More Production

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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.

January 24, 2012 | 12:30 PM

How’s this for mixed messages? A new report from the U.S. Energy Information Agency is reducing its estimate of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale to 141 trillion cubic feet. Last year, an EIA report put the level at more than 400 trillion cubic feet of gas.
The same report, however, anticipates domestic gas production will triple by 2035.
StateImpact Pennsylvania will take a closer look at the report and its implications for Pennsylvania’s energy economy later today.