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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Over the past few years, natural gas has become the primary fuel that America uses to generate electricity, displacing the long-time king of fossil fuels, coal. In 2019, more than a third of Americ...
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Pennsylvania today suspended permits for Sunoco Pipeline, LP's $2.5 billion Mariner East 2ย pipeline project, after finding that the company committed โ€œegregious and willful violationsโ€ of stateย law...
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In 2017, while the Trump administration absorbed media attention with its cries of โ€œfake news,โ€ the oil and gas industry was busy launching private legal actions across the U.S., attacking critics ...
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At a shareholder meeting this past spring, U.S. Bank announced it would be the first large American bank to completely stop issuing loans for oil and gas pipeline constructionย projects. Environmen...
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Louisiana's first-term attorney general Jeff Landry often presents himself as a staunch tough-on-crime and anti-corruption candidate, pushing his office's powers to the limits (and beyond) as he se...
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Sean Spicer might be among the least trusted public figures in the U.S. After he lost his job as White House press secretary, all five major TV news networks โ€” including both Fox News and CNN, as ...
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Southern Co. is accused of fraudulently misrepresenting the prospects for its troubled โ€œclean coalโ€ project in Kemper County, Mississippi in several legal filings thisย summer. Southern announced i...
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Pennsylvania's Environmental Hearing Board today ordered Sunoco Pipeline LP to temporarily halt some types of work on a $2.5 billion pipeline project designed to carry 275,000 barrels a day of buta...
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In a major blow to proponents of โ€œclean coalโ€ technology, Southern Co., parent company of Mississippi Power, announced in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today that it's throwing in the...
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If you teach science to American schoolchildren, there's a good chance that you might open your mailbox soon and find a package containing a free, unsolicited 135-page book and 11-minute DVD, plus ...