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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.

First Felony Arrests Near Bayou Bridge Construction Made Under New Louisiana Law Penalizing Pipeline Trespass
BySharon Kelly
onAug 22, 2018 @ 10:23 PDT

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...
Series: Conflict in Cajun Country: Will the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Become Louisiana's Standing Rock?
Series: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Battle
us/Fracking Wastewater Spikes 1,440% in Half Decade, Adding to Dry Regionsโ€™ Water Woes
BySharon Kelly
onAug 15, 2018 @ 16:51 PDT

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...
us/China Threatens 25% Tariffs on US LNG in Trump Trade War Escalation
BySharon Kelly
onAug 7, 2018 @ 09:57 PDT

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 ...
us/UPDATED: Retired Schoolteacher Sentenced to 2-6 Months After Sunoco Claims She Violated Court Order in Mariner East Pipeline Dispute
BySharon Kelly
onAug 1, 2018 @ 18:15 PDT

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, ...
us/Did Plans to Export US Ethane Help Fund Accused Russian Spy Maria Butina?
BySharon Kelly
onJul 30, 2018 @ 16:23 PDT

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...
us/Critics Challenge 'Fundamental Flaws' in Energy Department LNG Export Study Draft
BySharon Kelly
onJul 29, 2018 @ 11:37 PDT

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...
us/Scandal-Plagued Scott Pruitt Resigns from EPA, Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler Now Interim EPA Chief
BySharon Kelly
onJul 5, 2018 @ 13:06 PDT

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...
us/As Industry Pushes Billion-Dollar Fracked Petrochemical Projects, State Regulators Struggle To Keep Up
BySharon Kelly
onJul 1, 2018 @ 06:00 PDT

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...
Series: Fracking for Plastics
Series: Fracking for Plastics
us/Methane Leaks from Oil and Gas 60% Higher Than EPA Estimates, New Study Finds
BySharon Kelly
onJun 21, 2018 @ 23:59 PDT

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...
us/Why It Matters If Fracking Companies Are Overestimating Their โ€˜Provedโ€™ Oil and Gas Reserves
BySharon Kelly
onJun 14, 2018 @ 17:29 PDT

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 ...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances

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