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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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...
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On Monday, the Wall Street Journal featured a profile of Scott Sheffield, CEO of Pioneer Natural Resources, whose company is known among investors for its emphasis on drawing oil and gas from the P...
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Steve Schlotterbeck, who led drilling company EQT as it expanded to become the nationโ€™s largest producer of natural gas in 2017, arrived at a petrochemical industry conference in Pittsburgh Friday ...
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A recent Congressional amendment, which backers say will soon reach the House floor for debate, could have major ramifications for the petrochemical industryโ€™s plan to move into the Ohio River Vall...
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Tomorrow, June 6, in Covington, Kentucky, a routine quarterly meeting of the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO), an eight-state compact responsible for setting water pollution ...
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A lawsuit filed today in federal court in Louisiana challenges the stateโ€™s โ€œcritical infrastructureโ€ law, used to press felony charges against fossil fuel pipeline construction opponents, asย uncons...
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In April, the Department of Justice informed Southern Company that it was under investigation โ€œrelated to the Kemper County energy facilityโ€ in Mississippi, where Southern had spent $7.5 billion, i...