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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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...
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โ€œExtreme by any measure.โ€ Those four words were used by the U.S. Supreme Court in a landmark 2009 decision to describe judicial corruption and corporate influence in the West Virginiaย courts. That ...
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Three years ago, 29 miners died at the Massey Energy Upper Big Branch mine. It was the worst mining disaster in decades, caused by a methane-fueled blast that was so strong it killed miners more th...
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Amid all the pushback to fracking, most of the attention has focused on what drillers put into the ground. The amount of water used. The chemicals that make up energy companies' secret mix. Whether...
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Today's shale gas boom has brought a surge of drilling across the US, driving natural gas prices to historic lows over the past couple of years. But, according to David Hughes, geoscientist and f...
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โ€œItโ€™s coming,โ€ a baritone voice warns as images of a fiery hellscape flash across the screen. โ€œLies. Deception,โ€ someone whispers, just before the narrator launches into a diatribe about Josh Foxโ€™s...
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Virtually anyone who has followed the onshore drilling bonanza knows the name Aubrey McClendon and the company he co-founded, Chesapeakeย Energy. McClendon was the hard-driving CEO and chairman of o...
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A year ago, President Obama set forth his vision of Americaโ€™s energy policy. โ€œWe need an energy strategy for the future,โ€ he said in a message still prominently displayed on the White House website...