Drill Bits: More On The House GOP/Corbett Shale Bill

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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.

November 7, 2011 | 8:02 AM

The Corbett Administration authored the bulk of the House Republican Marcellus Shale plan, including a section preempting local drilling regulations…but don’t expect to hear that detail from the governor.
More on last week’s legislation from the Times-Tribune.
The measure was forwarded in a cramped, out-of-the-way committee room. The Tribune-Review’s Brad Bumsted calls that a “monumental mistake” and “blown opportunity.”
Meantime, several municipalities are moving forward with ballot initiatives for drilling regulations, including Peters Township, Washington County.