Fracking regulations, party-crashing protesters and other afternoon links

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.

June 23, 2011 | 12:13 PM

More links to keep you busy:
A ProPublica story finds holes in several states’ fracking disclosure regulations.
The federal Office of Surface Mining is closing a Wilkes-Barre office that dealt with anthracite coal fires.
No budget deal yet – but it looks like Republican leaders are inching closer to an agreement. The Corbett Administration made progress on another front, though, reaching a tentative contract agreement with AFSCME, who represents tens of thousands of state workers.
Anti-drilling protestors heckled a Wilkes-Barre riverfront festival over the weekend, due to the fact Chesapeake Energy had sponsored it.