House To Debate Impact Fee

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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 28, 2011 | 1:11 PM

The State House will spend the afternoon debating a new natural gas drilling impact fee, proposed by Republican Policy Chair Dave Reed.
The proposal would set an annual $50,000-per-well fee, which would gradually shrink to $10,000, over the course of the decade.
Money would go to counties and municipalities hosting drilling, the Environmental Stewardship Fund, and local conservation districts.
Here’s the summary House Republicans just emailed out.