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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/A New Kind of Frackademia? New Environmental Inspectors Offered Free Industry-Funded Classes on Fracking
BySharon Kelly
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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
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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
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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...
us/Exclusive: Battle Over Flaming Water and Fracking Reignites As Analysis Prompts Call for Renewed EPA Investigation
BySharon Kelly
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At the heart of the international controversy over fracking has been the contention that the oil and gas drilling technique can contaminate people's drinking water, sometimes even causing it to lig...
us/Radioactivity Found in Pennsylvania Creek, Illegal Fracking Waste Dumping Suspected
BySharon Kelly
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Recently released testing results in western Pennsylvania, upstream from Pittsburgh, reveal evidence of radioactive contamination in water flowing from an abandoned mine. Experts say that the radio...
us/Texas Family's Water Well Explodes, Burns 4-Year Old, Father and Grandfather -- and Fracking to Blame, Lawsuit Alleges
BySharon Kelly
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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
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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 paper concludes. “The University ...
us/Once Burned, Twice Shy? Utica Shale Touted to Investors As Shale Drillers Continue Posting Losses
BySharon Kelly
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For the past several weeks, the drilling industry — hammered by bad financial results — 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
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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
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It’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...

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