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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/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 ...
us/Following Sudden Death of Indicted Former Chesapeake Energy CEO, Justice Department Investigation into Collusion Continues
BySharon Kelly
onMar 8, 2016 @ 03:58 PST

Last Tuesday, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against former Chesapeake Energy CEO Aubrey McClendon, stemming from an alleged lease bid-rigging conspiracy between McClendon and an...