Phil McKenna
Reporter, Boston
Phil McKenna is a Boston-based reporter for Inside Climate News. Before joining ICN in 2016, he was a freelance writer covering energy and the environment for publications including The New York Times, Smithsonian, Audubon and WIRED. Uprising, a story he wrote about gas leaks under U.S. cities, won the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the 2014 NASW Science in Society Award. Phil has a master’s degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an Environmental Journalism Fellow at Middlebury College.
Massachusetts Seeks to End Ratepayer-Funded Subsidy for New Natural Gas Connections
By Phil McKenna
The Biggest US LNG Exporter Is Claiming a Massive Tax Credit for Using Its Cargo as an ‘Alternative’ Fuel
By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
Bipartisan Cryptocurrency Legislation Will Fuel Further Environmental Destruction, Environmental Advocates Say
By Phil McKenna
Ground Source Heat Pump Manufacturers Urge Senators to Preserve Geothermal Tax Credits
By Phil McKenna
Can Solar and Geothermal Energy Help a Church and Its Neighbors Wean Off Fossil Fuels?
By Phil McKenna
The Massive Pipeline Buildout in the U.S. Is Mostly for Gas Going Overseas
By Phil McKenna
A Restricted Climate Super Pollutant Is Pumped Out at Far Higher Levels Than Countries Admit. What Happens Next?
By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike
Global Aluminum Producer Announces $4 Billion Smelter for Wind-Rich Oklahoma
By Phil McKenna
As EPA Rolls Back Regulations for Large Industrial Polluters, It Finds a New Target: A Two-Person Geoengineering Startup
By Phil McKenna
The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas
By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection
By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Can the World’s Largest Ice Rink Survive a Warming Planet?
By Phil McKenna
A Third Generation Driller Transitions from Oil and Gas to Geothermal
By Phil McKenna
‘The Devil Will Bite You,’ Environmentalists Tell Japan’s Prime Minister on Eve of Trump Summit
By Phil McKenna
GOP Lawmakers Seek to Roll Back Methane Fee
By Phil McKenna
As MIT Aims to Decarbonize, Competing Ideas Focus on Thermal Energy Systems
By Phil McKenna
