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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/Texas Family's Water Well Explodes, Burns 4-Year Old, Father and Grandfather -- and Fracking to Blame, Lawsuit Alleges
BySharon Kelly
onAug 19, 2015 @ 04:58 PDT

A family in Texas, including a four-year old, her parents and her grandfather, were severely burned when their water well ignited into a massive fireball after methane from nearby fracked wells con...
us/Key Greenhouse Gas Study May Have "Systematically Understated" Methane Leaks, New Research Shows
BySharon Kelly
onAug 4, 2015 @ 10:15 PDT

A widely cited study on the amount of methane leaking from oil and gas sites, including fracked wells, shows signs of a major flaw, a newly published peer-reviewed paperย concludes. โ€œThe University ...
us/Once Burned, Twice Shy? Utica Shale Touted to Investors As Shale Drillers Continue Posting Losses
BySharon Kelly
onAug 2, 2015 @ 04:58 PDT

For the past several weeks, the drilling industry โ€” hammered by bad financial results โ€” has begun promoting its next big thing: the Utica shale, generating the sort of headlines you might have seen...
us/Environmental Group Launches Lawsuit Against Federal Government Over Pipeline Safety Planning
BySharon Kelly
onJul 30, 2015 @ 03:58 PDT

One of the country's largest environmental groups has accused the federal government of failing to follow pipeline safety planning laws, alleging that for more than two decades the Department of Tr...
us/Recession, Not Fracking, Behind Drop in U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Scientists Conclude
BySharon Kelly
onJul 20, 2015 @ 09:45 PDT

Itโ€™s been a talking point for boosters of the shale gas rush for years: as fracking spread across the country and the supply glut drove prices down, utilities have been shuttering dirty coal plants...
us/Drillers Under Pressure as Low Prices, Broad Uncertainties Put Oil & Gas Industry's Financial Prospects 'In Limbo'
BySharon Kelly
onJul 16, 2015 @ 04:58 PDT

At a climate change conference in Paris last week, Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, had a blunt message for energyย companies. โ€œWe see some moves from energy companie...
us/EPA's New Fracking Study: A Close Look at the Numbers Buried in the Fine Print
BySharon Kelly
onJun 25, 2015 @ 04:58 PDT

When EPAโ€™s long-awaited draft assessment on fracking and drinking water supplies was released, the oil and gas industry triumphantly focused on a headline-making sentence: โ€œWe did not find evidence...
us/New Research Confirms Earthquake Swarms Caused by Oil and Gas Industry
BySharon Kelly
onJun 23, 2015 @ 13:48 PDT

The evidence establishing that the oil and gas industry is causing earthquakes grew much stronger last week, as two scientific papers clarified exactly how human activity is driving the swarm of qu...
us/EPA Study: Fracking Puts Drinking Water Supplies at Risk of Contamination
BySharon Kelly
onJun 4, 2015 @ 14:53 PDT

The Environmental Protection Agency has released its long awaited draft assessment of the impacts that fracking has on the nation's drinking water supplies โ€” confirming that the process does indeed...
us/Will Re-Fracking be the Shale Drilling Industry's Next Big Move?
BySharon Kelly
onJun 4, 2015 @ 03:58 PDT

With oil prices continuing to languish, companies like Halliburton and Schlumberger have started talking up a way to get more shale oil and gas for less money: re-fracking wells drilled over the pa...