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.

onJan 21, 2020 @ 14:26 PST

As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced ...
onJan 8, 2020 @ 14:41 PST

This week, plans to build one of the worldโ€™s largest plastics and petrochemical plants in St. James Parish, Lousiana โ€” the heart of the stateโ€™s notorious Cancer Alley โ€” inched forward as Lousiana a...
onJan 3, 2020 @ 14:05 PST

Former Trump administration Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who resigned from his cabinet-level post effective last month, has joined the board of directors of the general partner of Energy Transfer L...
onDec 13, 2019 @ 12:05 PST

Dark Waters, the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia โ€” a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is c...
onDec 10, 2019 @ 15:11 PST

Last month, 11,258 scientists from virtually every country in the world published a study on climate change, writing that they collectively declared โ€œclearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is ...
onDec 3, 2019 @ 21:05 PST

It was 1971, less than a year after the worldโ€™s first Earth Day, and in Canada an oil giant wasย worried. โ€œPublic concern regarding environmental problems is being translated into legislation rapid...
onNov 6, 2019 @ 18:00 PST

The company that for the past decade has been emblematic of the rise and pitfalls of shale drilling and fracking, Chesapeake Energy, saw its stock price collapse today, plunging by 29.15 percentย in...
onNov 5, 2019 @ 20:06 PST

California and Coloradoโ€™s public pension funds together lost out on over $19 billion over the past decade by investing in fossil fuel stocks, according to a report released onย Tuesday. The three p...
onOct 31, 2019 @ 13:17 PDT

Americaโ€™s air seems to have taken a turn for the worse, according to recent scientific research. Last week, a nationwide study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) found that the coun...
onOct 24, 2019 @ 07:47 PDT

When candidate Donald Trump arrived in Pittsburgh at the Shale Insight conference in 2016, he arrived with a message for the gathered shale executives: I will roll back regulation, especially envir...