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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/TransCanada's New 'Best-In-Class' Gas Pipeline Explodes in West Virginia, Causing Fiery Blast
BySharon Kelly
onJun 7, 2018 @ 16:55 PDT

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
onMay 30, 2018 @ 17:08 PDT

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
onMay 11, 2018 @ 12:17 PDT

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
onMay 6, 2018 @ 03:58 PDT

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
onApr 24, 2018 @ 04:58 PDT

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
onApr 19, 2018 @ 04:57 PDT

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...
us/For 15 Years, Energy Transfer Partners Pipelines Leaked an Average of Once Every 11 Days: Report
BySharon Kelly
onApr 17, 2018 @ 12:44 PDT

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
onApr 11, 2018 @ 12:57 PDT

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
onApr 5, 2018 @ 16:36 PDT

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
onMar 9, 2018 @ 03:54 PST

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...