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.

onOct 4, 2019 @ 11:55 PDT

A plan to build a natural gasโ€“fueled petrochemical plant in Kalama, Washington, ran into a new legal hurdle last week, as a coalition of environmental groups raised new objections to itsย constructi...
onSep 30, 2019 @ 13:20 PDT

Last week, as climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nationsย Climate Action Summit, invited leaders from major environmental groups spent their day listening to the leaders of fossil ...
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 climateย story.ย ย  Public relations experts keep a careful eye on the m...
onSep 13, 2019 @ 15:57 PDT

Thereโ€™s one big reason that analysts say Americaโ€™s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your powerย bill. ...
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 countryโ€™s โ€œlargest fossil fuel ...
onSep 5, 2019 @ 13:37 PDT

CNNโ€™s Wolf Blitzer kicked off a seven-hour long town hall on climate change with an unambiguous message of urgency on climateย change. โ€œThis unprecedented town hall is dedicated to the climate cris...
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...
onAug 16, 2019 @ 14:08 PDT

Christopher Leonardโ€™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...
onAug 14, 2019 @ 07:00 PDT

Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, accordi...
onAug 7, 2019 @ 13:01 PDT

A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy (DOE) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid โ€” and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch's powerful networ...