Virginia-Based Company Expands Marcellus Operations

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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.

May 10, 2012 | 3:38 PM

Virginia-based Dominion Resources is expanding its Marcellus and Utica Shale operations, as the Post-Gazette reports:

Dominion is expanding gas transmission and processing projects and pipelines across the Marcellus and Utica regions, with plans for facilities in every state where producers are extracting gas from the rock formations, said President and CEO Thomas F. Farrell.
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