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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For the past several years, the shale gas industry has argued that oversight of fracking is getting tighter and that the amount of methane gas leaking from their wells is less than some haveย specul...
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It was meant to go unnoticed. A small announcement out of a commissionersโ€™ meeting signaled plans to transport fracking wastewater by barge down the Ohio River. But it caught the eye of locals and ...
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When oil and gas executives gathered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to discuss the state of the industry shortly after Obama won re-election, they raised a recurring complaint. โ€œWe now face four mo...
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Next month Focus Features releases Matt Damonโ€™s new movie and the oil and gas industry is worried sick aboutย it. The movie, Promised Land, is about a Pennsylvania farm town deciding whether to go f...
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When Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Michael Krancer stepped to the mic at a shale oil and gas conference earlier this month, he offered one of his most candid descrip...
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When the shale gas industry met last week in Pittsburgh, none other than Karl Rove gave the keynote speech, regaling the audience with a lengthy patriotic anecdote comparing the fossil fuel dillers...
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As Hurricane Sandy battered the East Coast last month, tens of thousands of landowners with oil and gas leases faced an especially acute concern: would they get help from FEMA if their properties w...
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As the shale gas boom has brought oil and gas drilling closer and closer to home for many Americans, banking and real estate experts have found that drilling may pose significant risks involving pr...
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Two recentย court decisionsย  in New York state upheld the right of towns to use zoning laws to limit or even ban fracking within their borders. Other states and cities such asย Dallas,ย Maryland, andย ...