Sharon Kelly

About

Sharon Kelly is an attorney and investigative reporter based in Pennsylvania. She was previously a senior correspondent covering energy and antitrust at The Capitol Forum and, prior to that, she reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other print and online publications.

onMar 25, 2020 @ 17:40 PDT

Today, a federal judge tossed out federal permits for the Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL), built to carry over half a million barrels of Bakken crude oil a day from North Dakota, and ordered the U.S....
onMar 20, 2020 @ 16:17 PDT

The National Mining Association (NMA) on Wednesday called on President Donald Trump and federal lawmakers to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by cutting a tax used to support coal miners affected b...
onMar 16, 2020 @ 15:25 PDT

On January 30, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the outbreak of novel coronavirus 2019, which causes the disease COVID-19,ย was officially a โ€œpublic health emergency of intern...
onMar 9, 2020 @ 18:01 PDT

Oil prices collapsed today amid falling energy demand and the global response to theย novel coronavirus outbreak, as the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide reached over 113,000. On Friday,...
onMar 4, 2020 @ 14:45 PST

A major New York Times investigative report, published March 2, revealed efforts by Indur M. Goklany, a Department ofย Interior employee with ties to the Heartland Institute and other fossil-funded ...
onFeb 27, 2020 @ 16:05 PST

Balmorhea, Texas โ€” Less than four years ago, oil and gas company Apache Corp. announced an oil strike worth $80 billion in one of the most pristine reaches of West Texas โ€”ย the โ€œbiggest oil findโ€ of...
onFeb 26, 2020 @ 09:58 PST

Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, ...
onFeb 20, 2020 @ 18:09 PST

A recent German news report hasย shed light on the inner workings of the Heartland Instituteโ€™s international efforts to sow doubts about climate science using the dark money group Donors Trust. Part...
onFeb 6, 2020 @ 03:00 PST

Emails exchanged between an Oregon county commissioner and Pembina, the parent company of the proposed $10 billion fossil fuel export terminal Jordan Cove, raise ethics issues and may create openin...
onJan 22, 2020 @ 14:54 PST

Back in April last year, the Trump administrationโ€™s Environmental Protection Agencyย decided it was โ€œnot necessaryโ€ to update the rules for toxic waste from oil and gas wells. Torrents of wastewater...