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.

onJun 5, 2019 @ 15:12 PDT

Tomorrow, June 6, in Covington, Kentucky, a routine quarterly meeting of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO), an eight-state compact responsible for setting water pollution ...
onMay 22, 2019 @ 10:51 PDT

A lawsuit filed today in federal court in Louisiana challenges the stateโ€™s โ€œcritical infrastructureโ€ law, used to press felony charges against fossil fuel pipeline construction opponents, asย uncons...
onMay 21, 2019 @ 16:00 PDT

In April, the Department of Justice informed Southern Company that it was under investigation โ€œrelated to the Kemper County energy facilityโ€ in Mississippi, where Southern had spent $7.5 billion, i...
onMay 15, 2019 @ 15:48 PDT

The plastics industry plays a major โ€” and growing โ€” role in climate change, according to a report published today by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). By 2050, making and disp...
onMay 13, 2019 @ 18:04 PDT

A little-noticed Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announcement could have an outsized impact on the oil and gas pipeline industries โ€” if the commission decides to snap shut loopholes tha...
onMay 10, 2019 @ 11:52 PDT

On Monday, Oregon state regulators dealt a blow to the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, refusing to issue a state water quality certificate required by the Army Corps of En...
onMay 6, 2019 @ 16:19 PDT

Educating kids about climate change can help their parents learn too, a scientific study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes โ€” even when parents initially doubted that cl...
onMay 1, 2019 @ 14:37 PDT

Cabot Oil and Gas is a shale drilling company that, according to state regulators, botched its shale gas extraction operations in an area around Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, about a decadeย ...
onApr 28, 2019 @ 16:01 PDT

European fund managers are casting an increasingly skeptical eye towards the oil industry, concluding that the industryโ€™s financial future looks grim, according to a new survey published by a Londo...
onApr 25, 2019 @ 15:53 PDT

On April 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told two environmental groups that it had decided it was โ€œnot necessaryโ€ to update the federal standards handling toxic waste from oil an...