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.

onNov 7, 2018 @ 14:58 PST

Today, President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that Matthew G. Whitaker, who served as chief of staff for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, would replace his boss. Sessions was forced from office...
onOct 28, 2018 @ 09:11 PDT

The shale gas industry has been tryingย to build demand for fossil fuels from its fracked oil and gas wells by promoting the construction of a new petrochemical corridor in America's Rust Belt and e...
onOct 28, 2018 @ 09:11 PDT

The petrochemical industry anticipates spending a total of over $200 billion on factories, pipelines, and other infrastructure in the U.S. that will rely on shale gas, the American Chemistry Counci...
onOct 24, 2018 @ 14:40 PDT

Battles over new shale gas and oil pipelines involving Energy Transfer, formerly known as Energy Transfer Partners, have heated up in recent weeks โ€” an escalation that carries a tilt, as one side s...
onOct 18, 2018 @ 13:54 PDT

Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana arrived at this year'sย Expanding Global Gas Infrastructure seminarย with aย message. โ€œWelcome to the war for the future of our planet,โ€ Higgins said to the gath...
onSep 27, 2018 @ 15:02 PDT

In the last six years, officials in Texas and Louisiana issued permits allowing 74 petrochemical, oil, and gas projects to pump as much climate-warming pollution into the atmosphere as running 29 c...
onSep 12, 2018 @ 17:32 PDT

Just before dawn Monday morning, Chuck Belczyk thought a jet had crashed near his home roughly 25 miles outside Pittsburgh โ€” until he heard the sound of hissingย gas. โ€œAnd thatโ€™s when it all hit us...
onSep 10, 2018 @ 16:48 PDT

Protesters arrived outside the offices of a private equity firm run by a billionaire closely tied to the Clinton family on Monday, urging the company to abandon plans to keep a 44 year-old coal fir...
onSep 5, 2018 @ 11:39 PDT

As Judge Brett Kavanaughโ€™s Supreme Court nomination hearings get under way, understanding his appointmentโ€™s potential impacts for corporate regulation and the climate means looking back all the way...
onSep 4, 2018 @ 15:13 PDT

You, the American taxpayer,ย spent over $3.5 million providing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt with an unprecedented round-the-clock security detail โ€” and that ...