Phil McKenna
Reporter, Boston
Phil McKenna is a Boston-based reporter for InsideClimate 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.
Can Massachusetts Democrats Overcome the Power of Business Lobbyists and Pass Climate Legislation?
By Phil McKenna
Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy
By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
A German Initiative Seeks to Curb Global Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant
By Phil McKenna
Stimulus Bill Is Laden With Climate Provisions, Including a Phasedown of Chemical Super-Pollutants
By Phil McKenna
Chinese Factories Want to Make Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners. A US Company Is Blocking Them
By Phil McKenna and Feng Hao
As Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry Will Be No Stranger to International Climate Negotiations
By Phil McKenna
Post Election, Climate and Racial Justice Protesters Gather in Boston Over Ballot Counting
By Phil McKenna
Too Much Sun Degrades Coatings That Keep Pipes From Corroding, Risking Leaks, Spills and Explosions
By Phil McKenna
Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast on a Worst-Case Trajectory
By Phil McKenna
A Chinese Chemical Company Captures and Reuses 6,000 Tons of a Super-Polluting Greenhouse Gas
By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike
In a Move That Could be Catastrophic for the Climate, Trump’s EPA Rolls Back Methane Regulations
By Phil McKenna
Tree Deaths in Urban Settings Are Linked to Leaks from Natural Gas Pipelines Below Streets
By Phil McKenna
Super-Polluting Methane Emissions Twice Federal Estimates in Permian Basin, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna
Tribes Sue to Halt Trump Plan for Channeling Emergency Funds to Alaska Native Corporations
By Phil McKenna
U.S. Appeals Court in D.C. Restores Limitations on Super-Polluting HFCs
By Phil McKenna
Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Reduction Would Be Largest Anti-Climate Rollback Ever
By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
