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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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...
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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 ...