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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.

us/2018 Was a Year of Deadly Climate Disasters and an 'Ear Splitting Wake-Up Call'
BySharon Kelly
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2018 is set to rank as the fourth warmest year on record — and the fourth year in a row reflecting a full degree Celsius (1.8° Fahrenheit) temperature rise from the late 1800s, climate scientists s...
us/Louisiana Offers Fossil Fuel Exporter 'Single Largest' Local Tax Giveaway in American History
BySharon Kelly
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Louisiana plans to collect no industrial property tax from the $15.2 billion Driftwood liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal planned for its southwest corner, state officials announced last w...
us/Energy Transfer, Banks Lost Billions by Ignoring Early Dakota Access Pipeline Concerns
BySharon Kelly
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Roughly four years ago, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP) filed a federal application to build a 1,172 mile oil pipeline from North Dakota’s Bakken shale across the U.S. to Illinois at a projected cos...
Series: Dakota Access: Energy Transfer Partners Bakken Oil Pipeline
Series: Dakota Access Pipeline Battle
us/This Thanksgiving, a Look at the Indigenous Communities Making the Climate Connection
BySharon Kelly
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As Thanksgiving celebrations kick off around the U.S., activists are calling attention to Indigenous organizations, including many that work on problems and issues related to climate change.  “A l...
'Time is Running Out,' American Petroleum Institute Chief Said in 1965 Speech on Climate Change
BySharon Kelly
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The warning is clear and dire — and the source unexpected. “This report unquestionably will fan emotions, raise fears, and bring demand for action,” the president of the American Petroleum Institut...
us/Dark Money Paid New Trump Attorney General Matthew Whitaker’s Salary for 3 Years
BySharon Kelly
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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...
us/A Field Guide to the Petrochemical and Plastics Industry
BySharon Kelly
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The shale gas industry has been trying 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...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
us/Why Plans to Turn America’s Rust Belt into a New Plastics Belt Are Bad News for the Climate
BySharon Kelly
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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...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
us/Energy Transfer: New Name for Pipeline Company But Same Spills and Violence Against Protesters, Says Greenpeace Report
BySharon Kelly
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Battles over new shale gas and oil pipelines involving Energy Transfer, formerly known as Energy Transfer Partners, have heated up in recent weeks — an escalation that carries a tilt, as one side s...
us/Congressman Asks Gas Industry to Join Him as ‘3 Percenters,’ Fails to Mention Movement's Ties to White Supremacists
BySharon Kelly
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Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana arrived at this year's Expanding Global Gas Infrastructure seminar with a message. “Welcome to the war for the future of our planet,” Higgins said to the gath...