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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You wonโ€™t find an ethane cracker or industrial plastics manufacturing equipment on tiny Sullivanโ€™s Island, South Carolina. The tiny 2.5 mile-long barrier island along the Atlantic coast near Charle...
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A groundbreaking four-part report by Environmental Health News (EHN) offers new scientific evidence that living near oil and gas development can expose people to a wide array of hazardous and carci...
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As temperatures across Texas plunged in mid-February, memes showing frozen wind turbines โ€” some including misleading photos from Europe in 2015 โ€” spread rapidly on social media. Politicians like fo...
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On the evening of Januaryย 6, 2021, the day of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, former coal mining executive Don Blankenship, who ran against Donald Trump as a third-party candidate in the 2020...
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On Januaryย 7, 2021, Energy Transfer was notified by its insurer, Westchester Fire Insurance Co. of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that it had lost a $250,000 surety bond for the Dakota Access pipeline...
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Four environmental groups sued Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Andrew Wheeler last week, alleging that the agency stood by while Texas failed to enforce the nationโ€™s federal environment...
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Prominent climate science deniers moved rapidly to spread false and misleading conspiracy theories online during and after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters thisย week. Some climat...
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At the start of December 2020, U.N. Secretary General Antรณnio Guterres spoke at Columbia University, appearing not before a packed auditorium as in years past, but before a โ€œvirtualโ€ audience, maki...
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A new proposed regulation that would bar large banks from declining to do business with particular industries or groups of companies was released on Friday by the Treasury Departmentโ€™s Office of th...
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There was some speculation that climate-changing emissions might drop this spring as the world went into lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But, according to a new report by the World ...