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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/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...
us/Pennsylvania Plant Agrees to Stop Dumping Partially-Treated Fracking Wastewater in River After Lengthy Lawsuit
BySharon Kelly
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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
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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 major problem. While their shale wells extr...
us/As Energy Department Announces Methane Measures, Critics Call for Stronger Action
BySharon Kelly
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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. economy. “These 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
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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
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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 brain cancer. His death d...
us/Pennsylvania Environmental Regulators Flunk State's Own Shale Gas Audit
BySharon Kelly
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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 drilling ru...
us/Oklahoma Earthquake Swarm Spurs Fracking Wastewater Disposal Debate
BySharon Kelly
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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
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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
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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 Agency concludes. That's a massive jump from ...

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