Hotels and Motels in Greene County, More Money for Ohio, and Other Morning News 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.

Good morning, and welcome to the StateImpact Pennsylvania website.

Here’s today’s energy news:
Ohio is banking more than $1 million off of Pennsylvania drillers disposing their fracking fluid in the Buckeye State. Traffic is up 25 percent in 2011, and experts say that’s due to new regulations restricting how much fluid companies can dump in the commonwealth’s waterways.
In the latest battle over local zoning ordinances, Range Resources is threatening legal action against a Washington County Community.
More motels are on the way in Greene County. The Observer-Reporter doesn’t like the trend, and blames gas drilling for the construction spike.
And finally, government reform advocate Tim Potts tells Pennsylvania Public Radio’s Mary Wilson he expects some sort of tax or fee on drilling this fall.
 

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