Federal Money Steered Toward 10 Dilling-Related PA Companies

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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.

December 22, 2011 | 11:03 AM

More on that $1 million (indirect) federal loan for Marcellus Shale-related businesses, from the Scranton Times-Tribune:

A Northeast Pennsylvania loan organization plans to use $1 million in new federal economic aid to help small businesses find opportunities supplying the Marcellus Shale drilling industry.
The Towanda-based Central Bradford Progress Authority which covers Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming and Sullivan counties will give loans to existing businesses that are developing new products and services to meet the demands of the drilling boom in Northeast Pennsylvania.
“People have ramped up their existing business to have products the industry wants,” said authority executive director Anthony Ventello.
The authority’s goal is to finance 10 business loans and create 150 jobs with the $1 million available through a federal small business jobs act passed last year.