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 16, 2017 @ 09:36 PDT

In a suburb of Detroit, Michigan, Wednesday (March 15), President Donald Trump handed a victory to the oil industry, in a move that will have severe and long-lasting ramifications for the climate โ€”...
onFeb 15, 2017 @ 11:57 PST

The fossil fuel industry's effort to โ€œstart winning hearts and mindsโ€ arrived at a Baptist church in North Carolina recently in the form of three $1,500 scholarships for local high school students ...
onFeb 14, 2017 @ 08:46 PST

On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel-based projects is coming โ€” a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmenta...
onFeb 1, 2017 @ 03:58 PST

REEVES COUNTY, TEXAS โ€” Travelers crossing the long stretch of arid desert spanning West Texas might stumble across an extraordinarily improbable sight โ€” a tiny teeming wetlands, a sliver of marsh t...
onJan 26, 2017 @ 10:35 PST

If President Donald Trump expected to hear roars of approval from the pipeline industry after this week's executive orders pushing the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) forward...
onJan 10, 2017 @ 11:57 PST

President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for the Cabinet began appearing before the U.S. Senate to start their confirmation hearing process on Tuesday โ€” and some of the slots to be filled will have ...
onJan 9, 2017 @ 14:58 PST

Fueling U.S. Forward, an oil industry PR group, has spent the second half of 2016 running an on-the-ground campaign targeting African-American communities and spreading a message focused on energy ...
onDec 15, 2016 @ 04:58 PST

Harold Hamm, America's richest energy billionaire and the CEO of shale driller Continental Resources, ย spoke at the S&P Global Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum last Thursday with an unusualย messa...
onDec 13, 2016 @ 11:38 PST

The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it had completed its scientific report on whether fracking puts America's drinking water supplies atย risk. The EPA's conclusions were clear...
onDec 6, 2016 @ 11:19 PST

The day after the Obama administration announced that the Dakota Access pipelineย (DAPL) project would be required to undergo additional review, protests against the banks that funded the project co...