Sharon Kelly

About

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.

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Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, ...
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A recent German news report hasย shed light on the inner workings of the Heartland Instituteโ€™s international efforts to sow doubts about climate science using the dark money group Donors Trust. Part...
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Emails exchanged between an Oregon county commissioner and Pembina, the parent company of the proposed $10 billion fossil fuel export terminal Jordan Cove, raise ethics issues and may create openin...
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Back in April last year, the Trump administrationโ€™s Environmental Protection Agencyย decided it was โ€œnot necessaryโ€ to update the rules for toxic waste from oil and gas wells. Torrents of wastewater...
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As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced ...
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This week, plans to build one of the worldโ€™s largest plastics and petrochemical plants in St. James Parish, Lousiana โ€” the heart of the stateโ€™s notorious Cancer Alley โ€” inched forward as Lousiana a...
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Former Trump administration Energy Secretary Rick Perry, who resigned from his cabinet-level post effective last month, has joined the board of directors of the general partner of Energy Transfer L...
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Dark Waters, the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia โ€” a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is c...
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Last month, 11,258 scientists from virtually every country in the world published a study on climate change, writing that they collectively declared โ€œclearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is ...
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It was 1971, less than a year after the worldโ€™s first Earth Day, and in Canada an oil giant wasย worried. โ€œPublic concern regarding environmental problems is being translated into legislation rapid...