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Chesapeake Energy Offers Buyouts To 275 Employees

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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.

December 14, 2012 | 1:26 PM

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Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon

Chesapeake Energy, which operates more natural gas wells in Pennsylvania than any other company, is offering buyouts to 275 employees.
The move comes at the end of a year where Chesapeake faced tough questions about its finances, and receding natural gas prices.
Click here to read StateImpact Oklahoma’s report.
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