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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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...
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For the past 42 years, the Beaver County Conservation District in western Pennsylvania has hosted their Maple Syrup Festival, an annual all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast featuring syrup made from m...
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Christopher Leonardโ€™s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America, begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activi...
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Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, accordi...
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A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy (DOE) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid โ€” and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch's powerful networ...
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On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge'sย Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded.ย This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derri...
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Back in 2015, if youโ€™d searched YouTube for information about climate change, the videos offered up might have left you with a warped sense of the state of climate science and the degree of scienti...