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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...