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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.

New Report Highlights Fracking's Global Hazards
BySharon Kelly
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A new report, issued the same day the latest round of global climate negotiations opened in Peru, highlights the fracking industry's slow expansion into nearly every continent, drawing attention no...
us/Hard Times in a Boom Town: Pennsylvanians Describe Costs of Fracking
BySharon Kelly
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If you're looking for the shale gas boom, northeastern Pennsylvania is the place toย start. The Marcellus is the largest and fastest growing shale gas play in the U.S. and more than half of its 50 m...
us/As Chesapeake Energy Reveals Department of Justice Investigation, Other Lawsuits Piling Up
BySharon Kelly
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Earlier this month, Chesapeake Energy Corp. revealed that it has been subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice, along with multiple states, over alleged wrong-doing in the company's businessย de...
us/Prosecution of Don Blankenship a Historic Moment for Coal Industry
BySharon Kelly
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This week's indictment of former Massey Energy CEO, Don Blankenship, was as much a political turning point for West Virginia as it was a moment of reckoning economically for the coal industry writ ...
us/Marcellus Shale Fracking Rush Brings Worries of Boom-Bust Cycle
BySharon Kelly
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Across the U.S., the shale gas industry's arrival has been marked by wariness, not only of the environmental impacts associated with fracking, but also due to the oil and gas industry's long histor...
us/Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
BySharon Kelly
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Leave it to Washington's top attack-dog lobbyist Richard Berman to verify what many always suspected: that the oil and gas industry uses dirty tricks to undermine science, vilify its critics and di...
us/When the Shale Runs Dry: A Look at the Future of Fracking
BySharon Kelly
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If you want to see the future of the shale industry โ€” what today's drilling rush will leave behind โ€” come to Bradford,ย Pennsylvania. A small city, it was home to one of America's first energy booms...
us/A Shift from Fossil Fuels Could Provide $1.8 Trillion in Savings, Two New Reports Conclude
BySharon Kelly
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A worldwide transition to low carbon fuels could save the global economy as much as $1.8 trillion over the next two decades, according to two reports published Thursday by the Climate Policyย Initia...
us/Workers at Fracked Wells Exposed to Benzene, CDC Warns Amid Mounting Evidence of Shale Jobs' Dangers
BySharon Kelly
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For years, the oil and gas industry has worked to convince Americans that the rush to drill shale wells across the country will not only provide large corporations with lavish profits, but will als...
us/Shale Industry Resorts to Conspiracy Theories to Explain Opposition to Fracking
BySharon Kelly
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As evidence mounts concerning the hazards of fracking, the oil and gas industry is increasingly trying to redirect public discussion of the topic, focusing instead on the funding behind the environ...

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