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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/Oil and Gas Activities Behind Texas Earthquakes Since 1925, Scientists Conclude
BySharon Kelly
onMay 25, 2016 @ 02:58 PDT

If you've felt an earthquake in Texas at any point over the last four decades, odds are that quake wasn't naturally occurring, but was caused by oil and gas industry activities, according to a newl...
us/Fracking's Air Pollution Puts Infants and Children at Risk of Developing Heart, Lung Problems: New Study
BySharon Kelly
onMay 12, 2016 @ 09:26 PDT

A newly published peer-reviewed study concludes that air pollution from fracking puts people's lungs, hearts, and immune systems at risk โ€“ and that the health risks are particularly pointed for you...
us/Duke Study Finds A "Legacy of Radioactivity," Contamination from Thousands of Fracking Wastewater Spills
BySharon Kelly
onMay 8, 2016 @ 11:08 PDT

Thousands of oil and gas industry wastewater spills in North Dakota have caused โ€œwidespreadโ€ contamination from radioactive materials, heavy metals and corrosive salts, putting the health of people...
us/Fracking Pollution Raising the Earth's Levels of Ethane, Bakken Oilfield Is Largely to Blame
BySharon Kelly
onMay 5, 2016 @ 03:58 PDT

The Bakken shale oilfield is single-handedly responsible for most of a mysterious global rise in atmospheric ethane โ€” a pollutant that can harm human health and heat the atmosphere further โ€” peer-r...
us/New York State Refuses Permit for Constitution Pipeline in Major Victory for Anti-Fracking Organizers
BySharon Kelly
onMay 3, 2016 @ 17:50 PDT

In a striking victory for grassroots environmental and community groups, New York state's Department of Environmental Conservation announced on April 22 that it had denied a key permit for a pipeli...
us/Top Shale Fracking Executive: We Won't Frack the Rich
BySharon Kelly
onApr 21, 2016 @ 17:28 PDT

Fracking companies deliberately keep their wells away from the โ€œbig housesโ€ of wealthy and potentially influential people, a top executive from one of the country's most prominent shale drilling co...
us/Will LNG Exports Save the Shale Gas Drilling Industry's Profitability? Not So Fast
BySharon Kelly
onApr 14, 2016 @ 03:58 PDT

Last year, a wave of bankruptcies swept the oil and gas drilling industry as oil prices collapsed, leading to layoffs, lost revenues for communities, and turning former boomtown-era mancamps into g...
us/Former Massey CEO Don Blankenship Sentenced to One Year in Prison For Conspiracy to Evade Mining Safety Rules
BySharon Kelly
onApr 6, 2016 @ 13:45 PDT

Disgraced coal baron Don Blankenship received the maximum possible sentence today for his misdemeanor conspiracy conviction, in a criminal case spurred by the Upper Big Branch disaster that killed ...
us/Dimock Water Contamination Verdict Prompts Calls for Federal Action on Fracking
BySharon Kelly
onMar 16, 2016 @ 15:44 PDT

Last week, in a historic verdict, a Pennsylvania jury awarded $4.24 million to two families in Dimock, PA who sued a shale gas driller, Cabot Oil and Gas Corp., over negligent drilling that contami...
BREAKING: $4.2 Million Jury Verdict Against Cabot Oil & Gas in Dimock, PA Water Contamination Lawsuit
BySharon Kelly
onMar 10, 2016 @ 10:23 PST

A Pennsylvania jury handed down a $4.24 million verdict in a lawsuit centering on water contamination from negligent shale gas drilling in Dimock, PA, a tiny town that made international headlines ...

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