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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On the heels of the shale gas rush that's swept the U.S. for the past decade, another wave of fossil fuel-based projects is coming โ€” a plastic and petrochemical manufacturing rush that environmenta...
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REEVES COUNTY, TEXAS โ€” Travelers crossing the long stretch of arid desert spanning West Texas might stumble across an extraordinarily improbable sight โ€” a tiny teeming wetlands, a sliver of marsh t...
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If President Donald Trump expected to hear roars of approval from the pipeline industry after this week's executive orders pushing the Keystone XL pipeline and Dakota Access pipeline (DAPL) forward...
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President-elect Donald Trump's nominees for the Cabinet began appearing before the U.S. Senate to start their confirmation hearing process on Tuesday โ€” and some of the slots to be filled will have ...
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Fueling U.S. Forward, an oil industry PR group, has spent the second half of 2016 running an on-the-ground campaign targeting African-American communities and spreading a message focused on energy ...
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Harold Hamm, America's richest energy billionaire and the CEO of shale driller Continental Resources, ย spoke at the S&P Global Platts Global Energy Outlook Forum last Thursday with an unusualย messa...
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The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it had completed its scientific report on whether fracking puts America's drinking water supplies atย risk. The EPA's conclusions were clear...
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The day after the Obama administration announced that the Dakota Access pipelineย (DAPL) project would be required to undergo additional review, protests against the banks that funded the project co...
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Just before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its high profile study on fracking, the agency planned to announce that the draft โ€œstudy shows potential vulnerabilities to drinking wa...
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Midland, Texasย โ€” Monarch butterflies, tiny lizards, and a type of grouse known as the lesser prairie chicken all drew close scrutiny from a large gathering of oil and gas executives at the Permian ...