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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.

February 8, 2012 | 2:13 PM

As we continue monitoring House debate on a Marcellus Shale impact fee, here’s a look at how the Department of Environmental Protection and Department of Conservation and Natural Resources fared in Governor Corbett’s proposed budget.
From the Times Leader:

The Department of Environmental Protection will see funding cut by 7.8 percent or $10.5 million; and the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources’ budget is decreased by about $2.5 million or 4.6 percent.

In addition to the proposed state-level cuts, DEP expects to see a $40 million drop in federal funding this year.
Yesterday, StateImpact Pennsylvania took a look at how drilling royalties would fund a third of DCNR’s 2012-2013 budget.