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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/For 15 Years, Energy Transfer Partners Pipelines Leaked an Average of Once Every 11 Days: Report
BySharon Kelly
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5,475 days, 527 pipeline spills: that's the math presented in a new report from environmental groups Greenpeace USA and the Waterkeeper Alliance examining pipelines involving Dakota Access builder ...
us/World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
BySharon Kelly
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In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning frackedย gas worse for the climate thanย c...
us/Climate Science Deniers Spring to Pruitt's Defense as Ethics Concerns, Calls for Resignation Mount
BySharon Kelly
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Calls for Trump's climate-science denying Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt to resign are mounting, as the New York Times on Thursday published a detailed look at four high-r...
us/From Scandals to Secrecy, the Curious Similarities Between Trumpโ€™s and Reaganโ€™s EPA
BySharon Kelly
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The Environmental Protection Agency's chief, a science skeptic with a taste for luxury goods, entered office hellbent on slashing government red tape โ€” but slowly became embroiled in scandal over a...
us/Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to 'Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline'
BySharon Kelly
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At a pipeline industry conference in Pittsburgh on Januaryย 31, Robert G. Phillips, CEO and President of Crestwood Equity Partners, offered an unusually candid perspective on pipelines, fracking, en...
us/Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shellโ€™s Falcon Pipeline
BySharon Kelly
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At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the stateย and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensit...
us/New NASA Study Solves Climate Mystery, Confirms Methane Spike Tied to Oil and Gas
BySharon Kelly
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Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a third of Americ...
us/Pennsylvania Suspends Mariner East 2 Pipeline Construction, Citing Sunoco's 'Egregious and Willful' Violations
BySharon Kelly
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Pennsylvania today suspended permits for Sunoco Pipeline, LP's $2.5 billion Mariner East 2ย pipeline project, after finding that the company committed โ€œegregious and willful violationsโ€ of stateย law...
us/Oil and Gas Industry's 2017 Suing Spree Could Set Speech-Chilling Precedents
BySharon Kelly
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In 2017, while the Trump administration absorbed media attention with its cries of โ€œfake news,โ€ the oil and gas industry was busy launching private legal actions across the U.S., attacking critics ...
us/US Bank Declares End to Oil and Gas Pipeline Loansโ€”Then Quietly Joins $4B Deal with Dakota Access Owner
BySharon Kelly
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At a shareholder meeting this past spring, U.S. Bank announced it would be the first large American bank to completely stop issuing loans for oil and gas pipeline constructionย projects. Environmen...
Series: Dakota Access: Energy Transfer Partners Bakken Oil Pipeline
Series: Dakota Access Pipeline Battle

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