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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The company that for the past decade has been emblematic of the rise and pitfalls of shale drilling and fracking, Chesapeake Energy, saw its stock price collapse today, plunging by 29.15 percentย in...
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California and Coloradoโ€™s public pension funds together lost out on over $19 billion over the past decade by investing in fossil fuel stocks, according to a report released onย Tuesday. The three p...
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Americaโ€™s air seems to have taken a turn for the worse, according to recent scientific research. Last week, a nationwide study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) found that the coun...
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When candidate Donald Trump arrived in Pittsburgh at the Shale Insight conference in 2016, he arrived with a message for the gathered shale executives: I will roll back regulation, especially envir...
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A plan to build a natural gasโ€“fueled petrochemical plant in Kalama, Washington, ran into a new legal hurdle last week, as a coalition of environmental groups raised new objections to itsย constructi...
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Last week, as climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed the United Nationsย Climate Action Summit, invited leaders from major environmental groups spent their day listening to the leaders of fossil ...
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This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climateย story.ย ย  Public relations experts keep a careful eye on the m...
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Thereโ€™s one big reason that analysts say Americaโ€™s electrical power should soon run on clean energy sources like wind and solar rather than fossil fuels like coal and natural gas: your powerย bill. ...
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Today, as Democratic presidential contenders arrive for a major debate this evening in Houston, 22 activists from Greenpeace sought to shut down what they called the countryโ€™s โ€œlargest fossil fuel ...
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CNNโ€™s Wolf Blitzer kicked off a seven-hour long town hall on climate change with an unambiguous message of urgency on climateย change. โ€œThis unprecedented town hall is dedicated to the climate cris...