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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The plastics industry plays a major โ€” and growing โ€” role in climate change, according to a report published today by the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). By 2050, making and disp...
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A little-noticed Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announcement could have an outsized impact on the oil and gas pipeline industries โ€” if the commission decides to snap shut loopholes tha...
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On Monday, Oregon state regulators dealt a blow to the proposed Jordan Cove Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) project, refusing to issue a state water quality certificate required by the Army Corps of En...
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Educating kids about climate change can help their parents learn too, a scientific study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes โ€” even when parents initially doubted that cl...
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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 $...