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.

onApr 21, 2019 @ 03:56 PDT

Eliza Griswoldโ€™s book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America examines the impacts of fracking in western Pennsylvania,ย and on Monday it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Gen...
onApr 12, 2019 @ 13:01 PDT

This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shal...
onApr 2, 2019 @ 15:23 PDT

Since 1992, the United States consistentlyย has missed its targets for reducing globe-warming emissions, and aย Dublin-based think tank estimates the resulting damage to the global economy has beenย $...
onMar 22, 2019 @ 09:00 PDT

A new report by a British think tank estimates that since the 2015ย Paris Agreement, the worldโ€™s five largest listed oil and gas companies spent more than $1 billion lobbying to prevent climate chan...
onMar 20, 2019 @ 09:00 PDT

A report published today names the banks that have played the biggest recent role in funding fossil fuel projects, finding that since 2016, immediately followingย the Paris Agreement's adoption, 33 ...
onMar 5, 2019 @ 08:58 PST

A new report traces the life cycle of plastic from the moment an oil and gas well is drilledย to the time plastic trash breaks down in the environment, finding โ€œdistinct risks to human healthโ€ at ev...
onMar 1, 2019 @ 11:44 PST

Itโ€™s hard for anyone to miss a โ€œhelp wantedโ€ sign like this: โ€œ13,000 Union Workers Needed for Atlantic Coast Pipelineย Project.โ€ Thatโ€™s how the website Oilfield Job Shop described the opportunities...
onFeb 21, 2019 @ 03:11 PST

In September 2018, two prospective buyers announced they were dropping out of negotiations to purchase the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), the Americanย Westโ€™s largest coal-fired powerย plant. Aven...
onFeb 14, 2019 @ 17:26 PST

A North Dakota federal judge dismissed Energy Transferโ€™s racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace and all its co-defendants in a sharply worded ruling issued today, finding that the pipeline builder...
onFeb 11, 2019 @ 16:47 PST

Plans for a pipeline network to export petrochemical ingredients from fracked gas wells in Pennsylvania hit a major roadblock, as state environmental regulators announcedย Friday that they were susp...