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Sharon Kelly

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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.

us/How Trumpโ€™s EPA Is Moving to Undo Fracking Wastewater Protections
BySharon Kelly
on

Back in 2008, residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and surrounding areas received a notice in the mail advising them to drink bottled water instead of tap water โ€” a move that Environmental Protec...
us/As Rest of World Moves Towards Renewables, US Keeps Offering Exclusive Tax Breaks for Fossil Fuels
BySharon Kelly
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About a half decade ago, as the shale drilling rush was sweeping across the U.S., drillers needed upfront cash โ€” and quick โ€” to let them snap up acreage, drill and frack exploratory wells, and hone...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Low Octane: The Surprising Reason Shale Oil Makes a Poor Fuel for High-Tech Cars and Trucks
BySharon Kelly
on

Shale oil, which the Energy Information Administration projects will represent a rising proportion of American oil supplies in the coming decades, has a surprising Achilles heel: its low octane lev...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
Despite Disappointing Returns, Oil Driller Pushes Ahead with Fracking Near Rare Texas Wildlands
BySharon Kelly
on

If you ask the CEO of Apache Corp., his company made in 2016 the kind of once-in-a-lifetime find that every oil driller dreams of: a massive oil and gas field that no other company noticed, where t...
us/For 15 Years, Energy Transfer Partners Pipelines Leaked an Average of Once Every 11 Days: Report
BySharon Kelly
on

5,475 days, 527 pipeline spills: that's the math presented in a new report from environmental groups Greenpeace USA and the Waterkeeper Alliance examining pipelines involving Dakota Access builder ...
us/World May Hit 2 Degrees of Warming in 10-15 Years Thanks to Fracking, Says Cornell Scientist
BySharon Kelly
on

In 2011, a Cornell University research team first made the groundbreaking discovery that leaking methane from the shale gas fracking boom could make burning frackedย gas worse for the climate thanย c...
us/Climate Science Deniers Spring to Pruitt's Defense as Ethics Concerns, Calls for Resignation Mount
BySharon Kelly
on

Calls for Trump's climate-science denying Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt to resign are mounting, as the New York Times on Thursday published a detailed look at four high-r...
us/From Scandals to Secrecy, the Curious Similarities Between Trumpโ€™s and Reaganโ€™s EPA
BySharon Kelly
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The Environmental Protection Agency's chief, a science skeptic with a taste for luxury goods, entered office hellbent on slashing government red tape โ€” but slowly became embroiled in scandal over a...
us/Energy CEO Says Fracking Build-out in New York Not Over, Wants Regulators to 'Lay Down and Approve Every Pipeline'
BySharon Kelly
on

At a pipeline industry conference in Pittsburgh on Januaryย 31, Robert G. Phillips, CEO and President of Crestwood Equity Partners, offered an unusually candid perspective on pipelines, fracking, en...
us/Study Fills in Missing Data on Homes, Schools, Habitats at Risk from Shellโ€™s Falcon Pipeline
BySharon Kelly
on

At the end of 2017, Shell ran slightly afoul of Pennsylvania state regulators after filing a pipeline permit application to the stateย and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that failed to show sensit...

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