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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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 ...
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In unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today, Friday, November 6,ย Continental Resources founder and executive chairman Haroldย Hamm* referred to countingย โ€œall legal votesโ€ โ€” a phra...
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Citing design changes, Shell Chemical Appalachia has asked Pennsylvaniaโ€™s state regulators to issue air permits that would allow the companyโ€™s massive plastics manufacturing plant under constructio...
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Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, accord...
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โ€œTo all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning,โ€ President Trump said at a campaign rally last week in Erie, Pennsylvania. โ€œIf Bidenโ€™s elected, he will wipe out your energyย industry.โ€ โ€œOnly...
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Over the past five years, environmental advocates with the nonprofit Earthworks have made trips to 298 oil and gas wells, compressor stations, and processing plants across the Permian Basin in Texa...
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On Monday, October 5, a ship left Cameron LNG, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal shut down by Hurricane Laura, theย powerful storm thatย made landfallย onย August 27 near Cameron, Louisiana, about...