Phish Phights Phracking, An On-Time Budget, And Other AM Links

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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 30, 2011 | 7:57 AM

Good morning –
Today’s main news: an on-time $27.15 billion state budget. Governor Corbett is expected to sign the spending plan into law today. It will be the first time Pennsylvania’s budget has been set before July 1 since the Schweiker Administration.
The budget cuts Department of Envrionmental Protection funding, and doesn’t include a natural gas drilling impact fee. That angers PennFuture.
In other news….
Federal prosecutors have indicted a Lycoming County man for allegedly damaging a natural gas pipeline.
New Jersey lawmakers have passed a statewide ban on fracking. There’s no Marcellus Shale in the Garden State, but New Jersey does have some Utica Shale.
Jam band Phish may be pro-bong water, but they’re anti-fracking water. (Phracking water?) The group is holding a three-day concert aimed at drumming up support for anti-drilling group The Coalition to Protect New York.