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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/As Industry Pushes Billion-Dollar Fracked Petrochemical Projects, State Regulators Struggle To Keep Up
BySharon Kelly
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Fueled by fracking in the region,ย petrochemical and plastics projects in the Ohio River Valleyย are attracting tens of billions of dollars in investment, but as plans for this build-out hit the draw...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
us/Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas 60% Higher Than EPA Estimates, New Study Finds
BySharon Kelly
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Each year, oil and gas industryย operations in the U.S. are leaking roughly 60 percent more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas,ย into our atmosphere than previous estimates from theย U.S. Environmenta...
us/Why It Matters If Fracking Companies Are Overestimating Their โ€˜Provedโ€™ Oil and Gas Reserves
BySharon Kelly
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Back in 2011, The New York Times first raised concerns about the reliability of America's proved shale gas reserves. Proved reserves are the estimates of supplies of oil and gas that drillers tell ...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Following Spills and Sinkholes, Mariner East Pipeline Opponents Call on PA Governor Wolf to Stop Construction
BySharon Kelly
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By Dan Zegart and Sharon Kellyย  A rally in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on Saturday drew a crowd of roughly 200 opponents to Sunocoโ€™s Mariner East projects, who cited a litany of concerns about the...
us/TransCanada's New 'Best-In-Class' Gas Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia, Causing Fiery Blast
BySharon Kelly
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This morning, residents of Marshall County, West Virginia, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to a major natural gas rupture and explosion on TransCanada's Leach XPress pipeline on Nixon Ridge โ€” a quickly built pi...
us/Troubled Gas Firm Drops Request to Dodge Drilling Limits Near New Mexico's Methane Hot Spot
BySharon Kelly
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Today, one of New Mexico's largest oil and gas producers, Hilcorp Energy, dropped its recently filed request to increase the number of wells it can drill or frackย in the San Juan Basin, already hom...
us/How Trumpโ€™s EPA Is Moving to Undo Fracking Wastewater Protections
BySharon Kelly
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Back in 2008, residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and surrounding areas received a notice in the mail advising them to drink bottled water instead of tap water โ€” a move that Environmental Protec...
us/As Rest of World Moves Towards Renewables, US Keeps Offering Exclusive Tax Breaks for Fossil Fuels
BySharon Kelly
on

About a half decade ago, as the shale drilling rush was sweeping across the U.S., drillers needed upfront cash โ€” and quick โ€” to let them snap up acreage, drill and frack exploratory wells, and hone...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Low Octane: The Surprising Reason Shale Oil Makes a Poor Fuel for High-Tech Cars and Trucks
BySharon Kelly
on

Shale oil, which the Energy Information Administration projects will represent a rising proportion of American oil supplies in the coming decades, has a surprising Achilles heel: its low octane lev...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
Despite Disappointing Returns, Oil Driller Pushes Ahead with Fracking Near Rare Texas Wildlands
BySharon Kelly
on

If you ask the CEO of Apache Corp., his company made in 2016 the kind of once-in-a-lifetime find that every oil driller dreams of: a massive oil and gas field that no other company noticed, where t...

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