Corbett Cancels Shale Gas Insight Appearance Due To Flooding

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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.

September 8, 2011 | 11:51 AM

Good morning – a wide variety of technical difficulties kept us offline this morning, but we’re still here at the Marcellus Shale Coalition’s Philadelphia convention.
Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi is headlining a session on state issues right now. We’ll have a report on that panel soon.
In the meantime, today’s big news is no news. Governor Corbett had to cancel his afternoon speech, due to massive flooding in central Pennsylvania. Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Mike Krancer will fill in. The Post-Gazette has more details.