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How The Corbett Administration Slashed A Science Program's Budget By 70 Percent

Scott Detrow

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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.

January 19, 2012 | 11:26 AM

Scott Detrow / StateImpact Pennsylvania

Specialty license plates help fund the Wild Resource Conservation Program

Yesterday, we reported the Corbett Administration slashed a scientific research program’s budget by nearly 70 percent. Department of Conservation and Natural Resources officials removed Marcellus Shale and climate change-related studies from a list of projects approved for state grants.
I spoke to WITF’s Tim Lambert about the StateImpact Pennsylvania article. You can listen to the interview here:

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