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Sharon Kelly

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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.

us/Public Health Experts Flunk Report Tying Pennsylvania Air Quality Improvements to Gas Drilling
BySharon Kelly
onOct 31, 2019 @ 13:17 PDT

America’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...
us/As Drillers Continue Poor Financial Performance, Shale Insight Hosts Trump Speech Touting Fossil Energy Future
BySharon Kelly
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...
us/Washington Petrochemical Plant Subsidies Would Violate Federal ‘Double Dipping’ Rules Say Environmental Groups
BySharon Kelly
onOct 4, 2019 @ 11:55 PDT

A plan to build a natural gas–fueled petrochemical plant in Kalama, Washington, ran into a new legal hurdle last week, as a coalition of environmental groups raised new objections to its constructi...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Oil Industry Set Agenda During Climate Summit Meeting with Big Greens
BySharon Kelly
onSep 30, 2019 @ 13:20 PDT

Last week, as climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nations Climate Action Summit, invited leaders from major environmental groups spent their day listening to the leaders of fossil ...
Fossil Fuel Ad Campaigns Emphasize 'Positives' After Climate Science Denial PR Lands Industry in Hot Seat
BySharon Kelly
onSep 16, 2019 @ 11:09 PDT

This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.   Public relations experts keep a careful eye on the m...
us/Cheap Renewables Could Make 90% of Proposed Gas Power Plants — and Many Pipelines — Obsolete by 2035
BySharon Kelly
onSep 13, 2019 @ 15:57 PDT

There’s one big reason that analysts say America’s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your power bill. ...
us/Greenpeace Shuts Down Houston Ship Channel to Protest Oil Exports as Democratic Candidates Arrive in Texas for Debate
BySharon Kelly
onSep 12, 2019 @ 09:33 PDT

Today, as Democratic presidential contenders arrive for a major debate this evening in Houston, 22 activists from Greenpeace sought to shut down what they called the country’s “largest fossil fuel ...
us/Democratic Presidential Candidates Face 7 Hours of Tough Questions on Climate Change, From Fracking to Fossil Fuels
BySharon Kelly
onSep 5, 2019 @ 13:37 PDT

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer kicked off a seven-hour long town hall on climate change with an unambiguous message of urgency on climate change. “This unprecedented town hall is dedicated to the climate cris...
us/Pipeline Permit Scandal Highlights Confusion Amid Push to Build Plastics Plants
BySharon Kelly
onAug 30, 2019 @ 13:32 PDT

For the past 42 years, the Beaver County Conservation District in western Pennsylvania has hosted their Maple Syrup Festival, an annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring syrup made from m...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
us/Christopher Leonard's New Book Puts an Ever-Expanding 'Kochland' on the Map
BySharon Kelly
onAug 16, 2019 @ 14:08 PDT

Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activi...

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