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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 29, 2011 | 9:00 AM

Scott Detrow / StateImpact Pennsylvania

Both impact fee bills bar local governments from barring drilling in residential zones

All week, we’re highlighting StateImpact’s most popular content of 2011. Today’s topic: topics!
Here are the year’s most-visited topic pages, which provide background information on specific issues, and archive stories and blog posts we’ve published.

Fracking: It’s no surprise our explainer on hydraulic fracturing got more clicks than any other topic page this year.
The Latest on Pennylvania’s Dueling Impact Fees: Governor Corbett and state lawmakers spent all of 2011 debating whether or not to levy a fee on natural gas wells, and what that fee would look like. With the issue still unresolved, an impact fee will likely be a popular topic in 2012, too.

The Marcellus Shale, Explained: Background information on the geologic formation, itself.
Dimock, PA: Ground Zero In the Fight Over Fracking. Our look at excessive methane in the wells of a couple dozen Dimock families, and how the contamination has affected the national debate over natural gas drilling.
The Delaware River Basin Commission – another front where anti-drilling activists have chosen to take a stand. A look at how the state/federal agency works, and what, exactly, it’s new regulations would do, if they’re ever enacted.