Former Lawmaker Takes Coal Job

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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.

July 9, 2012 | 3:00 PM

Former State Senator John Pippy

Former Republican state Senator John Pippy – who resigned from his seat on June 30 – has been named CEO of the Pennsylvania Coal Alliance. More from the Post-Gazette:

Mr. Pippy, a Republican from Moon who represented the 37th District for nine years, resigned from the Senate 10 days ago after voting on the state budget. A formal press conference is scheduled at 10 a.m. to announce the news, but the PA Coal Alliance website had already updated to include Mr. Pippy’s name as its top executive.
The Coal Alliance is forming after a merger of the Pennsylvania Coal Association and Families Organized to Represent the Coal Economy, or FORCE.
Mr. Pippy will lead a group whose members face troubled times. Preliminary data for the Environmental Information Agency’s April report showed natural gas nearly edging coal in electricity production, the first time the two energy sources have been so close since the agency began collecting data several decades ago.