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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/Fracking Main Street: New Report Shows Social Costs for Rural Communities
BySharon Kelly
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Whatโ€™s it like living in a small town thatโ€™s gone from rust belt farmland to frackingย boomtown? First, residents often say, thereโ€™s the traffic.ย  Communities have been unexpectedly flooded with hea...
us/Never-Released Energy Department Report Predicts Increasing Domestic Conflicts over Water, Energy
BySharon Kelly
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Last summer, the United States experienced the worst drought since the Dust Bowl in theย 1930s. At the same time, the country was experiencing one of the biggest onshore drilling booms in history, p...
us/Greenwashing Concerns Mount as Evidence of Fracking's Climate Impact Grows
BySharon Kelly
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Several years ago, Utah public health officials realized they had a big problem on their hands โ€“ one with national implications as other states were racing to increase oil and gas drilling. Smog le...
us/Another Pennsylvania Wastewater Treatment Plant Accused of Illegally Disposing Radioactive Fracking Waste
BySharon Kelly
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A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny river with radioactive waste and other pollutants, according to ...
us/Growing Doubts on the Numbers from Fracking Giant Chesapeake Energy
BySharon Kelly
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America is in the midst of the biggest onshore oil and gas rush in recent history, with excitement spreading across the U.S. Oil and gas companies have cashed in on this frenzied excitement by cour...
us/Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz Relies on Dubious Coal Tech for Obama Climate Strategy
BySharon Kelly
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The key takeaway from President Obama's major climate change announcement this week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any indication, the man Mr. Obama selected to run the De...
us/A Gamble on Shale Job Growth Fails to Pay Off for Governor Corbett, as Fracking Worries Grow Nationwide
BySharon Kelly
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Last Friday in Philadelphia, a small crowd gathered outside the Franklin Institute, protest signs in hand. Only a few days before, word went out that Governor Tom Corbett, one of the nationโ€™s least...
us/New Documents in West Virginia Coal Lawsuit Shine Light on Judicial Corruption Allegations
BySharon Kelly
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โ€œExtreme by any measure.โ€ Those four words were used by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 2009 decision to describe judicial corruption and corporate influence in the West Virginiaย courts. That ...
us/The Epic Rise and Fall of Don Blankenship, former Massey Energy CEO
BySharon Kelly
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Three years ago, 29 miners died at the Massey Energy Upper Big Branch mine. It was the worst mining disaster in decades, caused by a methane-fueled blast that was so strong it killed miners more th...
us/Radioactive Waste From the Marcellus Shale Continues to Draw Concern
BySharon Kelly
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Amid all the pushback to fracking, most of the attention has focused on what drillers put into the ground. The amount of water used. The chemicals that make up energy companies' secret mix. Whether...

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