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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Cabot Oil and Gas is a shale drilling company that, according to state regulators, botched its shale gas extraction operations in an area around Carter Road in Dimock, Pennsylvania, about a decadeย ...
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European fund managers are casting an increasingly skeptical eye towards the oil industry, concluding that the industryโ€™s financial future looks grim, according to a new survey published by a Londo...
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On April 23, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told two environmental groups that it had decided it was โ€œnot necessaryโ€ to update the federal standards handling toxic waste from oil an...
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Eliza Griswoldโ€™s book Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America examines the impacts of fracking in western Pennsylvania,ย and on Monday it was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Gen...
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This week, at an industry conference focused on wooing petrochemical producers to West Virginia, officials from the state and federal government made clear their support for continuing fracked shal...
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Since 1992, the United States consistentlyย has missed its targets for reducing globe-warming emissions, and aย Dublin-based think tank estimates the resulting damage to the global economy has beenย $...
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A new report by a British think tank estimates that since the 2015ย Paris Agreement, the worldโ€™s five largest listed oil and gas companies spent more than $1 billion lobbying to prevent climate chan...
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A report published today names the banks that have played the biggest recent role in funding fossil fuel projects, finding that since 2016, immediately followingย the Paris Agreement's adoption, 33 ...
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A new report traces the life cycle of plastic from the moment an oil and gas well is drilledย to the time plastic trash breaks down in the environment, finding โ€œdistinct risks to human healthโ€ at ev...
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Itโ€™s hard for anyone to miss a โ€œhelp wantedโ€ sign like this: โ€œ13,000 Union Workers Needed for Atlantic Coast Pipelineย Project.โ€ Thatโ€™s how the website Oilfield Job Shop described the opportunities...