Sharon Kelly

4 weeks ago | gijn.org | Sharon Kelly |Julie Dermansky |Nick Cunningham

If you are a reporter who covers climate change, I ask you to focus for a moment on a Canadian graduate student named Eli Franklin Burton. It was he who in 1904 poured oil from a well in Petrolia, Ontario, into a “large three-litre flask supported in a water bath,” heated that with a Bunsen burner, ran the vapors recovered through a set of tubes, and discovered “a highly radioactive gas obtained from crude petroleum.”This was radon, currently America’s second leading cause of lung cancer deaths.

Jan 18, 2025 | popularresistance.org | Sharon Kelly

Above photo: Outside academics said the study raises questions about whether the industries studied might also be deliberately coordinating their messaging. PLOS Climate.

Jan 15, 2025 | desmog.com | Sharon Kelly

From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social media platform X, and their messaging on environmental issues was strikingly “obstructive” for climate policy and action, a study published today in the journal PLOS Climate concludes.

Jan 15, 2025 | ecotopical.com | Sharon Kelly

From 2008 to 2023, nine of the nation’s largest oil, agrichemical, and plastics trade groups and corporations posted thousands of tweets on the social media platform X, and their messaging on environmental issues was strikingly “obstructive” for climate policy and action, a study published today in the…

Dec 18, 2024 | desmog.com | Sharon Kelly

By some estimates, there might be 2.4 billion barrels of oil deep below the waters of the Atlantic ocean off the coast of Suriname, South America’s smallest country. The problem for multinational oil companies seeking to extract that oil is what’s mixed in with it: trillions of cubic feet of methane, often referred to as natural gas. In May, the U.S. oil giant ExxonMobil and its partner, the Malaysian oil company Petronas, announced their latest well in Suriname’s waters had struck oil.