Sharon Kelly, Author at DeSmog

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.

us/EPA Decides Not to Regulate Fracking Wastewater as Pennsylvania Study Reveals Recent Spike

BySharon Kelly

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 “not necessary” to update the federal standards handling toxic waste from oil an...

us/Gas Driller at Center of 2019 Pulitzer-Winning Book on Fracking Still Faces Legal Battles

BySharon Kelly

onApr 21, 2019 @ 03:56 PDT

Eliza Griswold’s book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America examines the impacts of fracking in western Pennsylvania, and on Monday it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Gen...

us/'Virtually No Risk of Drilling Restrictions,' West Virginia Official Tells Fracking-Reliant Petrochemical Industry

BySharon Kelly

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...

Series: Fracking for Plastics

us/America’s Missed Climate Targets Cost Global Economy $1 Trillion, Dublin-based Think Tank Finds

BySharon Kelly

onApr 2, 2019 @ 15:23 PDT

Since 1992, the United States consistently has missed its targets for reducing globe-warming emissions, and a Dublin-based think tank estimates the resulting damage to the global economy has been $...

‘All Rhetoric and No Action’: Oil Giants Spent $1 Billion on Climate Lobbying and Ads Since Paris Pact, Says Report

BySharon Kelly

onMar 22, 2019 @ 09:00 PDT

A new report by a British think tank estimates that since the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world’s five largest listed oil and gas companies spent more than $1 billion lobbying to prevent climate chan...

Global Banks, Led by JPMorgan Chase, Invested $1.9 Trillion in Fossil Fuels Since Paris Climate Pact

BySharon Kelly

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 following the Paris Agreement's adoption, 33 ...

us/New Warnings on Plastic’s Health Risks as Fracking Industry Promotes New 'Plastics Belt' Build-Out

BySharon Kelly

onMar 5, 2019 @ 08:58 PST

A new report traces the life cycle of plastic from the moment an oil and gas well is drilled to the time plastic trash breaks down in the environment, finding “distinct risks to human health” at ev...

Series: Fracking for Plastics

us/Student Reporters in West Virginia Find Atlantic Coast Pipeline Offers Only Two Dozen Permanent Jobs

BySharon Kelly

onMar 1, 2019 @ 11:44 PST

It’s hard for anyone to miss a “help wanted” sign like this: “13,000 Union Workers Needed for Atlantic Coast Pipeline Project.” That’s how the website Oilfield Job Shop described the opportunities...

us/As Cleanup Dispute Looms, Peabody-Linked Group Pushes Navajo Nation to Buy West's Largest Coal Plant

BySharon Kelly

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 American West’s largest coal-fired power plant. Aven...

us/Court Throws out Energy Transfer’s ‘Racketeering’ Claims Against Dakota Access Pipeline Opponents

BySharon Kelly

onFeb 14, 2019 @ 17:26 PST

A North Dakota federal judge dismissed Energy Transfer’s racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace and all its co-defendants in a sharply worded ruling issued today, finding that the pipeline builder...

Series: Dakota Access: Energy Transfer Partners Bakken Oil Pipeline

Series: Dakota Access Pipeline Battle