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.

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...
onFeb 13, 2018 @ 15:27 PST

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...
onJan 29, 2018 @ 14:51 PST

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...
onJan 16, 2018 @ 10:22 PST

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...
onJan 3, 2018 @ 12:31 PST

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...
onJan 2, 2018 @ 10:07 PST

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 ...
onDec 20, 2017 @ 08:49 PST

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...
onOct 14, 2017 @ 06:05 PDT

Louisiana's first-term attorney general Jeff Landry often presents himself as a staunch tough-on-crime and anti-corruption candidate, pushing his office's powers to the limits (and beyond) as he se...
onOct 2, 2017 @ 13:19 PDT

Sean Spicer might be among the least trusted public figures in the U.S. After he lost his job as White House press secretary, all five major TV news networks โ€” including both Fox News and CNN, as ...
onAug 8, 2017 @ 16:02 PDT

Southern Co. is accused of fraudulently misrepresenting the prospects for its troubled โ€œclean coalโ€ project in Kemper County, Mississippi in several legal filings thisย summer. Southern announced i...