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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Battles over new shale gas and oil pipelines involving Energy Transfer, formerly known as Energy Transfer Partners, have heated up in recent weeks โ€” an escalation that carries a tilt, as one side s...
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Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana arrived at this year'sย Expanding Global Gas Infrastructure seminarย with aย message. โ€œWelcome to the war for the future of our planet,โ€ Higgins said to the gath...
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In the last six years, officials in Texas and Louisiana issued permits allowing 74 petrochemical, oil, and gas projects to pump as much climate-warming pollution into the atmosphere as running 29 c...
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Just before dawn Monday morning, Chuck Belczyk thought a jet had crashed near his home roughly 25 miles outside Pittsburgh โ€” until he heard the sound of hissingย gas. โ€œAnd thatโ€™s when it all hit us...
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Protesters arrived outside the offices of a private equity firm run by a billionaire closely tied to the Clinton family on Monday, urging the company to abandon plans to keep a 44 year-old coal fir...
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As Judge Brett Kavanaughโ€™s Supreme Court nomination hearings get under way, understanding his appointmentโ€™s potential impacts for corporate regulation and the climate means looking back all the way...
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You, the American taxpayer,ย spent over $3.5 million providing U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt with an unprecedented round-the-clock security detail โ€” and that ...
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Karen Savage, an award-winning investigative reporter, did not expect to be arrested as she covered Energy Transfer Partnersโ€™ controversial construction of the Bayou Bridge pipeline through Louisia...
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Between 2011 and 2016, fracked oil and gas wells in the U.S. pumped out record-breaking amounts of wastewater, which is laced with toxic and radioactive materials, a new Duke University study concl...
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China threatened to slap U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports with a 25 percentย tariff on August 3, escalating a trade war by threatening an industry closely allied with President Donald Trump ...