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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.

Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution, Says New Study
BySharon Kelly
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...
us/Documents Shine New Light on Koch Brothers’ Early Efforts to Abolish the Department of Energy
BySharon Kelly
onAug 7, 2019 @ 13:01 PDT

A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy (DOE) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch's powerful networ...
us/Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure
BySharon Kelly
onAug 6, 2019 @ 15:50 PDT

On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derri...
us/YouTube’s Video Suggestion Engine Boosted Climate Science Denial as World Warmed, Study Finds
BySharon Kelly
onJul 30, 2019 @ 13:57 PDT

Back in 2015, if you’d searched YouTube for information about climate change, the videos offered up might have left you with a warped sense of the state of climate science and the degree of scienti...
us/As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash
BySharon Kelly
onJul 25, 2019 @ 16:01 PDT

A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nation’s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known priv...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/‘We Can't Sit on the Sidelines and Be Climate Deniers,’ Dominion VP Warns Natural Gas Industry
BySharon Kelly
onJul 16, 2019 @ 15:04 PDT

Donald Raikes arrived at 2019’s DUG East conference, a major shale gas industry gathering in Pittsburgh, with a mixed set of messages for his fellow fossil energy officials. “We are faced with a l...
us/Here Are Some of the Climate-Linked Disasters and Rollbacks Trump’s ‘Environmental Leadership’ Speech Didn't Cover
BySharon Kelly
onJul 8, 2019 @ 12:43 PDT

President Donald Trump spoke to “America’s environmental leadership” in an address today, where he lived up to predictions and described the country’s air and water as clean (“crystal clean” even)....
us/Philadelphia Explosion One in String of 'Near Miss' Accidents at Refineries Using Deadly Chemical
BySharon Kelly
onJul 3, 2019 @ 12:44 PDT

Next Friday, July 12, the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in South Philadelphia is slated to close its doors, marking the end of an era that began in 1866, one year after the Civil War...
us/CEO of Major Shale Oil Company 'Has Second Thoughts' on Fracking Rush, Wall Street Journal Reports
BySharon Kelly
onJun 24, 2019 @ 17:57 PDT

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal featured a profile of Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, whose company is known among investors for its emphasis on drawing oil and gas from the P...
us/Former Shale Gas CEO Says Fracking Revolution Has Been 'A Disaster' For Drillers, Investors
BySharon Kelly
onJun 23, 2019 @ 04:02 PDT

Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nation’s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at a petrochemical industry conference in Pittsburgh Friday ...

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