Chesapeake Energy Helps With Flood Cleanup

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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 15, 2011 | 12:51 PM

Scott Detrow / StateImpact Pennsylvania

A Chesapeake sign in Bradford County

More on the drilling/flooding front: Chesapeake Energy has been very active in helping with post-Lee cleanup, as this Star-Gazette article details.

Meanwhile, Chesapeake has been working with local emergency management officials since remnants of Tropical Storm Lee dumped heavy rain across the Twin Tiers and caused a swollen Susquehanna River to spill over its banks.
So far, Chesapeake has donated 21,000 bottles and several tanker trucks of fresh drinking water, pumping equipment services to various townships, numerous cots and air mattresses for public shelters and help with transportation of equipment and materials.
On Wednesday, scores of Chesapeake workers helped residents with everything from demolition to cleaning.