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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/Proposed Marcellus Gas Pipeline Sparks Protest At Prized Maple Farm
BySharon Kelly
onFeb 25, 2016 @ 14:17 PST

Plans to build a major Marcellus shale gas pipeline were briefly paused this month by a protest launched by a collection of community and environmental activists who gathered on the Holleran-Zeffer...
us/High-Profile Trial Begins in Dimock, PA Water Contamination Case
BySharon Kelly
onFeb 24, 2016 @ 10:27 PST

Trial began this week in a case alleging that an oil and gas company contaminated drinking water in Dimock, Pennsylvania. The tiny town is now internationally notorious over claims that drilling an...
us/Oil Industry Caused 2005 Swarm of California Earthquakes: Newly Published Study
BySharon Kelly
onFeb 8, 2016 @ 03:58 PST

Oil and gas wastewater disposal has been tied to a series of earthquakes in California for the first time, in a peer-reviewed study published last Thursday. A string of quakes ending on Sept. 22...
us/Seven Arrested at Pennsylvania Pipeline Planning Meeting
BySharon Kelly
onJan 21, 2016 @ 13:10 PST

In Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale, the push to build out pipeline infrastructure that would transport gas and oil is meeting growing grassroots resistance, with protesters disrupting a meeting of G...
us/Aging Infrastructure, Fracking Eyed in Massive Porter Ranch, California Methane Leak
BySharon Kelly
onJan 20, 2016 @ 13:26 PST

It's been nearly three months since the Aliso Canyon gas leak in the upscale community of Porter Ranch, CA was first discovered โ€” and, even as that gas continues to spew into the atmosphere, expert...
us/Obama Slams Climate Deniers in State of the Union, Vague On Details For Action
BySharon Kelly
onJan 12, 2016 @ 22:42 PST

In his final State of the Union address, President Obama made climate change one of the major themes of the evening, ridiculing those who would deny that climate change is a problem โ€” and one that ...
us/Coal Mining's Financial Failures: Two Thirds of World's Production Now Unprofitable
BySharon Kelly
onDec 21, 2015 @ 03:58 PST

Sixty-five percent of the world's coal production is unprofitable at today's prices, a new research report by Wood Mackenzie, a commercial intelligence company often cited by investment analysts an...
us/"Bait and Switch": Pennsylvania Sues Driller and Pipeline Company Over Deceptive Deals
BySharon Kelly
onDec 18, 2015 @ 05:58 PST

Pennsylvania's beleaguered top prosecutor has filed a civil action against two of the nation's largest oil and gas companies, Chesapeake Energy and pipeline company Williams Partners LP, alleging t...
us/Western State Regulators Struggling to Keep up with Radioactive Fracking and Drilling Waste: New Report
BySharon Kelly
onNov 23, 2015 @ 03:58 PST

The question of how to handle the toxic waste from fracking and other oil and gas activities is one of the most intractable issues confronting environmental regulators. Not only because of the shee...
us/Despite Low Oil Prices, Renewable Power Gaining Traction, Energy Agencies Report โ€” But Not Yet Fast Enough for the Climate
BySharon Kelly
onNov 20, 2015 @ 04:58 PST

The shift away from coal and towards renewable sources of energy is slowly beginning to gain traction, two recently-released reports from American and global energy agenciesย show. โ€œThe biggest stor...