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.
Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities
By Phil McKenna
How a Successful EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled
By Phil McKenna
Deep in the Democrats’ Climate Bill, Analysts See More Wins for Clean Energy Than Gifts for Fossil Fuel Business
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna
Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’
By Phil McKenna
Every Hour, This Gas Storage Station Sends Half a Ton of Methane Into the Atmosphere
By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News and Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today
New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals
By Phil McKenna
International Commission Votes to Allow Use of More Climate-Friendly Refrigerants in AC and Heat Pumps
By Phil McKenna
Analysis: Fashion Industry Efforts to Verify Sustainability Make ‘Greenwashing’ Easier
By Phil McKenna
US Blocks Illegal Imports of Climate Damaging Refrigerants With New Rules
By Phil McKenna
Coal Mining Emits More Super-Polluting Methane Than Venting and Flaring From Gas and Oil Wells, a New Study Finds
By Phil McKenna
Looking to Reduce Emissions, Apparel Makers Turn to Their Factories in the Developing World
By Phil McKenna
A Florida Chemical Plant Has Fallen Behind in Its Pledge to Cut Emissions of a Potent Greenhouse Gas
By Phil McKenna
To Counter Global Warming, Focus Far More on Methane, a New Study Recommends
By Phil McKenna
Lululemon’s Olympic Challenge to Reduce Its Emissions
By Phil McKenna
Gas Stoves in the US Emit Methane Equivalent to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Half a Million Cars
By Phil McKenna
China Moves to Freeze Production of Climate Super-Pollutants But Lacks a System to Monitor Emissions
By Phil McKenna
