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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/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 — 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 agencies show. “The biggest stor...
us/Water Pollution Trading Programs Under Fire as Report Finds Lax Oversight, "Shell Games" Put Waterways at Risk
BySharon Kelly
onNov 19, 2015 @ 10:15 PST

A little-noticed federally-backed program is chipping away at the foundation of the Clean Water Act, one of the nation's core environmental laws, allowing major polluters to evade responsibility fo...
us/EPA Scientists Consider Dropping "Widespread, Systemic" Language from National Study Findings
BySharon Kelly
onNov 6, 2015 @ 15:19 PST

A phrase in the Executive Summary of EPA's national study on the threat that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, poses to American drinking water supplies has come under increasing fire from environ...
us/"Abandoned" by EPA, Landowers from Dimock, Pavillion, Parker County Demand Inclusion in EPA National Fracking Study
BySharon Kelly
onNov 3, 2015 @ 11:20 PST

For the past five years, the EPA has undertaken a highly-consequential national study on the impacts that hydraulic fracturing (fracking) can have on American drinking water supplies. “The agency w...
us/EPA Moves to Require Gas Processing Plants, for First Time, to Make Hazardous Emissions Public
BySharon Kelly
onOct 30, 2015 @ 13:46 PDT

This week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to require natural gas processing plants to start complying with federal toxic chemical disclosure laws, in response to a lawsuit and ...
us/Worries Build Among Investors Over Oil and Gas Industry’s Exposure to Water and Climate Risks
BySharon Kelly
onOct 26, 2015 @ 14:52 PDT

When it comes to financial risks surrounding water, there is one industry that, according to a new report, is both among the most exposed to these risks and the least transparent to investors about...
us/A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking
BySharon Kelly
onOct 5, 2015 @ 04:58 PDT

At an industry conference in Philadelphia last month, oil and gas executives gathered to hear about a little-known public relations effort with a very precise target: newly hired state and federal ...
us/Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani Offers Fracking Industry PR Strategy, Draws Three Mile Island Parallels
BySharon Kelly
onOct 4, 2015 @ 04:58 PDT

At a shale industry conference in Philadelphia, former New York City mayor and presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani offered up advice to drilling companies struggling with an oil price collapse and...
us/Extremist Heartland Institute Attacks Pope Francis On Climate, Claims Paganism Has Entered Catholic Church
BySharon Kelly
onSep 22, 2015 @ 15:16 PDT

A string of mystical and dire warnings about the Catholic Church were issued by Heartland Institute officials and supporters at a press conference last week in Philadelphia, where Pope Francis is s...

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