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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/Oil and Gas Industry's "Endless War" on Fracking Critics Revealed by Rick Berman
BySharon Kelly
onOct 31, 2014 @ 13:22 PDT

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
onOct 28, 2014 @ 05:00 PDT

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
onOct 10, 2014 @ 09:53 PDT

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
onSep 18, 2014 @ 05:00 PDT

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
onSep 17, 2014 @ 14:57 PDT

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...
us/Pennsylvania Plant Agrees to Stop Dumping Partially-Treated Fracking Wastewater in River After Lengthy Lawsuit
BySharon Kelly
onSep 16, 2014 @ 22:45 PDT

A Pennsylvania wastewater treatment plant alleged to have dumped toxic and radioactive materials into the Allegheny River has agreed to construct a new treatment facility, under a settlement announ...
us/Shale Oil Drillers Deliberately Wasted Nearly $1 Billion in Gas, Harming Climate
BySharon Kelly
onSep 4, 2014 @ 06:00 PDT

In Texas and North Dakota, where an oil rush triggered by the development of new fracking methods has taken many towns by storm, drillers have run into a majorย problem. While their shale wells extr...
us/As Energy Department Announces Methane Measures, Critics Call for Stronger Action
BySharon Kelly
onAug 2, 2014 @ 07:31 PDT

On Tuesday, the White House released a report estimating that delaying action on climate change could cause $150 billion a year in damage to the U.S.ย economy. โ€œThese costs are not one-time, but are...
us/EPA Internal Audit Finds Flawed Pipeline Oversight Adds $192 Million a Year to Gas Bills, Harms Climate
BySharon Kelly
onJul 29, 2014 @ 05:00 PDT

On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog, the inspector general released a scathing report on the agency's failure to control leaks from the nation's natural gas distribut...
us/After Rancher's Death, Calls for Fracking Health Study Grow Stronger
BySharon Kelly
onJul 24, 2014 @ 09:48 PDT

Last month, Terry Greenwood, a Pennsylvania farmer whose water had been contaminated by fracking waste, died of cancer. He was 66 and the cause of death was a rare form of brainย cancer. His death d...