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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/EPA's Fracking Study Edited at Last Minute, Downplaying Risks, Newly Uncovered Documents Show
BySharon Kelly
onDec 1, 2016 @ 14:02 PST

Just before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its high profile study on fracking, the agency planned to announce that the draft โ€œstudy shows potential vulnerabilities to drinking wa...
us/Protections for Rare and Endangered Animals Under Threat from Permian Basin Drilling Industry
BySharon Kelly
onNov 21, 2016 @ 14:22 PST

Midland, Texasย โ€” Monarch butterflies, tiny lizards, and a type of grouse known as the lesser prairie chicken all drew close scrutiny from a large gathering of oil and gas executives at the Permian ...
Series: Permian Problems: Fracking Industry's Promised Land Turns Sour
Series: Fracking the Permian
us/Connecticut Becomes Most Recent State to Back Away from Spectra's Access Northeast Pipeline Project
BySharon Kelly
onOct 27, 2016 @ 10:55 PDT

Connecticut regulators dealt a blow to pipeline company Spectra Energy Corp. this weekย by abandoning several utility proposals that would have relied on Spectra's beleaguered Access Northeast pipel...
Series: Spectra Gas Pipeline Problems: AIM, Fire, Conflict
Series: Spectra Gas Pipeline Problems
us/Internal Watchdog Blasts Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Regulators Over Safety Rule Delays
BySharon Kelly
onOct 25, 2016 @ 03:58 PDT

Safety laws meant to protect the American public against oil train explosions, pipeline leaks and other deadly risks have been repeatedly held up by slow-moving federal regulators, a newly released...
us/New Report by Top Senators Details Financial Ties Between Fossil Fuel Industry and Clean Power Plan Opponents
BySharon Kelly
onSep 28, 2016 @ 14:20 PDT

On September 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments in a major challenge to the Clean Power Plan,ย West Virginia v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency โ€” an...
us/Trump Touts Drilling's Potential, Botches Facts, at Shale Industry Conference
BySharon Kelly
onSep 23, 2016 @ 08:14 PDT

The shale gas and oil industry gathered in Pittsburgh this week for a major annual East Coast conference, Shale Insight 2016, and to hear the words of presidential candidate Donald Trump, who serve...
us/Chevron PR Firm's Local "News" Site Draws Attention from Koch Industries, Alarm from Media Watchdogs
BySharon Kelly
onSep 18, 2016 @ 03:58 PDT

In the city of Richmond, California, Chevron Corp. not only processes up to 250,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the largest refinery on the West Coast โ€”ย it also writes theย news. The Richmond S...
us/New Koch-Funded Group โ€˜Fueling US Forwardโ€™ Aims to Promote the "Positives" of Fossil Fuels
BySharon Kelly
onAug 14, 2016 @ 21:54 PDT

A long-awaitedย campaign to rebrand fossil fuels called Fueling U.S. Forwardย made its public debut atย the Red State Gathering 2016 on Saturday, whereย the organization's President and CEO Charles Dre...
Series: Koch vs Clean
Series: Koch vs Clean
us/In Scathing Review, EPA's Science Advisors Tell Agency Not to Downplay Fracking-Related Water Contamination
BySharon Kelly
onAug 12, 2016 @ 17:12 PDT

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency's scientific advisors finished their review of EPA's national study on frackingย and sternly rebuked the EPA for claiming that its draft study had fo...
us/Thousands of Pages of Confidential Think Tank Documents Detail Corporate Ties, New York Times Reports
BySharon Kelly
onAug 9, 2016 @ 18:32 PDT

Thousands of pages of confidential internal think tank emails and documents published by the New York Times yesterday shine a revealing spotlight onย how some of the nation's most prominent think ta...