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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Perhaps the single most consequential and controversial issue at the center of the onshore natural gas drilling boom is the question of methane leaks. Natural gas is primarily made of methane, a po...
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The Obama administration has systematically ignored the environmental risks of fracking and on several occasions it has even suppressed science to pave the way for increased shale drilling, accordi...
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A trade agreement being secretly negotiated by the Obama administration could allow an end run by the oil and gas industry around local opposition to natural gas exports. This agreement, called the...
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Whatโ€™s it like living in a small town thatโ€™s gone from rust belt farmland to frackingย boomtown? First, residents often say, thereโ€™s the traffic.ย  Communities have been unexpectedly flooded with hea...
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Last summer, the United States experienced the worst drought since the Dust Bowl in theย 1930s. At the same time, the country was experiencing one of the biggest onshore drilling booms in history, p...
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Several years ago, Utah public health officials realized they had a big problem on their hands โ€“ one with national implications as other states were racing to increase oil and gas drilling. Smog le...
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A Pennsylvania industrial wastewater treatment plant has been illegally accepting oil and gas wastewater and polluting the Allegheny river with radioactive waste and other pollutants, according to ...
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America is in the midst of the biggest onshore oil and gas rush in recent history, with excitement spreading across the U.S. Oil and gas companies have cashed in on this frenzied excitement by cour...
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The key takeaway from President Obama's major climate change announcement this week was his intent to batten down on coal. But if history is any indication, the man Mr. Obama selected to run the De...
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Last Friday in Philadelphia, a small crowd gathered outside the Franklin Institute, protest signs in hand. Only a few days before, word went out that Governor Tom Corbett, one of the nationโ€™s least...