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 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...
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In September 2018, two prospective buyers announced they were dropping out of negotiations to purchase the Navajo Generating Station (NGS), the Americanย Westโ€™s largest coal-fired powerย plant. Aven...
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A North Dakota federal judge dismissed Energy Transferโ€™s racketeering lawsuit against Greenpeace and all its co-defendants in a sharply worded ruling issued today, finding that the pipeline builder...
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Plans for a pipeline network to export petrochemical ingredients from fracked gas wells in Pennsylvania hit a major roadblock, as state environmental regulators announcedย Friday that they were susp...
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On Wednesday, February 6, an oil spill in St. Charles County, Missouri, caused the shutdown of two major oil pipelines, one owned by Enbridge and the other by TransCanada,ย as investigators began se...
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Since October 2018, the Mississippi River has been running high, thanks in part to heavier-than-usual rainfall across its northern and centralย stretches. And when the water flows high on the most ...
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Acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief โ€” and now Trump cabinet nominee โ€” Andrew Wheeler heads into Senate confirmation hearings at 10 a.m.ย EST Wednesday, as the longest government shutd...