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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/Pennsylvania Environmental Regulators Flunk State's Own Shale Gas Audit
BySharon Kelly
onJul 23, 2014 @ 09:08 PDT

In January 2013, Pennsylvania's auditor general announced that he would conduct an investigation into whether state regulators were effectively overseeing the impacts from the shale gas drillingย ru...
us/Oklahoma Earthquake Swarm Spurs Fracking Wastewater Disposal Debate
BySharon Kelly
onJul 17, 2014 @ 14:36 PDT

Last weekend, a swarm of seven earthquakes in just 14 hours between Saturday evening and Sunday morning in Oklahoma made national headlines. Those seven quakes were immediately preceded by another ...
us/In Blow to Oil Industry, New York's Top Court Upholds Local Fracking Bans
BySharon Kelly
onJun 30, 2014 @ 12:15 PDT

New York's highest state court ruled today that local governments have the legal authority to use zoning to bar oil and gas drilling, fracking and other heavy industrial sites within their borders....
us/Over $48 Trillion Energy Investment Needed by 2035, IEA Report Concludes
BySharon Kelly
onJun 13, 2014 @ 08:25 PDT

It will cost $48 trillion to keep up with rising energy demand worldwide over the next two decades, a newly released report by the International Energy Agencyย concludes. That's a massive jump from ...
us/"Fracking Pennsylvania": New Book Recounts History of the Northeast's Shale Rush
BySharon Kelly
onJun 9, 2014 @ 13:44 PDT

Walter Brasch begins his new book, Fracking Pennsylvania: Flirting with Disaster, by explaining in the introduction that he never intended to write an anti-fracking book. โ€œBut,โ€ he writes โ€œas I acc...
us/Loopholes Enable Industry to Evade Rules on Dumping Radioactive Fracking Waste
BySharon Kelly
onJun 2, 2014 @ 05:00 PDT

As the drilling rush proceeds at a fast pace in Pennsylvania's Marcellus shale, nearby states have confronted a steady flow of toxic waste produced by the industry. One of Pennsylvania's most activ...
us/Shale Rush Hits Argentina as Oil Majors Spend Billions on Fracking in Andes Region
BySharon Kelly
onMay 29, 2014 @ 11:00 PDT

While many countries, including France, Germany and South Africa, have banned or delayed their embrace of fracking, one country is taking a full-steam-ahead approach to the unconventional drilling ...
us/Exclusive: Leaked EPA Draft Fracking Wastewater Guidance Suggests Closer Scrutiny for Treatment Plants
BySharon Kelly
onMay 28, 2014 @ 05:00 PDT

One of the most intractable problems related to fracking is that each well drilled creates millions of gallons of radioactive and toxicย wastewater. For the past several years, the Environmental Pro...
us/โ€œAll of the Aboveโ€ or โ€œAction now?โ€: Obamaโ€™s Natural Gas Contradiction
BySharon Kelly
onMay 27, 2014 @ 14:26 PDT

At a talk in Vermont last week, the nation's top energy official offered up his thoughts on a problem the White House has said calls for โ€œurgent actionโ€: climateย change. โ€œWe need to mitigate the ef...
us/Pressure Grows on EPA to Regulate Toxic Air Pollution from Oil and Gas Industry
BySharon Kelly
onMay 14, 2014 @ 05:00 PDT

On Tuesday, 64 environmental groups, representing over 1 million members and supporters, submitted a legal petition to the Environmental Protection Agency, calling on the federal government to more...