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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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...
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A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nationโ€™s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known priv...
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Donald Raikes arrived at 2019โ€™s DUG Eastย conference, a major shale gas industry gathering in Pittsburgh, with a mixed set of messages for his fellow fossil energyย officials. โ€œWe are faced with a l...
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President Donald Trumpย spokeย to โ€œAmericaโ€™s environmental leadershipโ€ in an address today, where he lived up to predictionsย and describedย the countryโ€™s air and water as clean (โ€œcrystal cleanโ€ย even)....
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Next Friday, July 12, the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) refinery in South Philadelphia is slated to close its doors, marking the end of an era that began in 1866, one year after the Civil War...