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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This week, a United Nations panel on climate change issued one of its most urgent warnings to date, explaining that unless major changes to greenhouse gas emissions are made within the next few yea...
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It has been roughly twelve years since fracking launched the great shale rush in the U.S. and the biggest problem with the technology โ€” how to safely dispose of the enormous quantities of toxic was...
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ExxonMobil, the nation's largest oil and gas company, will begin disclosing risks associated with shale drilling and fracking to investors, in response to a long-running campaign by a coalition ofย ...
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Every year, fracking generates hundreds of billions of gallons of wastewater laced with corrosive salts, radioactive materials and many other chemicals. Because some of that wastewater winds up in ...
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Spurred by the shale drilling rush that has progressed at breakneck speed, the railroad industry has moved fast to help drillers transport petroleum and its byproducts to consumers. Last year, trai...
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Last Wednesday, the Washington D.C. city council passed a resolution opposing fracking in the George Washington National Forest, making the nationโ€™s capitol the third major U.S. city, after Los Ang...
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The fracking boom has progressed at breakneck speed across the U.S., with roughly one in 20 Americans now living within a mile of a well drilled sinceย 2000. So, how much has the economy benefitted ...
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Last year, natural gas prices hit record lows and shale gas promoters confidently predicted a bright future of stable low prices, making the fuel the best choice for home heating and electrical gen...
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Just how bad is natural gas for theย climate? A lot worse than previously thought, new research on methane leaksย concludes. Far more natural gas is leaking into the atmosphere nationwide than the En...
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A funny thing happened when Idaho Dept. of Lands Oil and Gas Program Manager Robert Johnson stepped to the microphone at a public hearing this past fall. He said something that many have long suspe...