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.

on

On Tuesday, July 26, Sunoco Pipeline L.P. filed paperwork with a Pennsylvania court claiming that retired special education teacher Ellen Gerhart, 63, had violated an injunction. Three days later, ...
on

Much has been made of the ties between the National Rifle Association (NRA) and alleged Russian spy Maria Butina after the Justice Department unsealed a criminal conspiracy complaint against Butina...
on

The Department of Energy (DOE) missed the mark in its newly published draft Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) study, ignoring economic costs associated with climate change and the growth of the renewable...
on

Scott Pruitt, whose tenure at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was tarred by corruption scandals and hostility to environmental regulation, offered his resignation today, effective Ju...
on

Fueled by fracking in the region,ย petrochemical and plastics projects in the Ohio River Valleyย are attracting tens of billions of dollars in investment, but as plans for this build-out hit the draw...
on

Each year, oil and gas industryย operations in the U.S. are leaking roughly 60 percent more methane, a powerful greenhouse gas,ย into our atmosphere than previous estimates from theย U.S. Environmenta...
on

Back in 2011, The New York Times first raised concerns about the reliability of America's proved shale gas reserves. Proved reserves are the estimates of supplies of oil and gas that drillers tell ...
on

By Dan Zegart and Sharon Kellyย  A rally in West Chester, Pennsylvania, on Saturday drew a crowd of roughly 200 opponents to Sunocoโ€™s Mariner East projects, who cited a litany of concerns about the...
on

This morning, residents of Marshall County, West Virginia, awoke at 4:15 a.m. to a major natural gas rupture and explosion on TransCanada's Leach XPress pipeline on Nixon Ridge โ€” a quickly built pi...
on

Today, one of New Mexico's largest oil and gas producers, Hilcorp Energy, dropped its recently filed request to increase the number of wells it can drill or frackย in the San Juan Basin, already hom...