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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.

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The Bad River flows through part of northern Wisconsin to Lake Superior. Credit: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Midwest Region

Fearing Oil Spills, Tribe Sues to Get a Major Pipeline Removed from Its Land

By Phil McKenna

Berkeley, California. Credit: Daniel Ramirez/CC-BY-2.0

Following Berkeley's Natural Gas Ban, More Cities Look to All-Electric Future

By Phil McKenna

Two boys look at a smartphone in front of their house next to a coal fired power plant on the outskirts of Beijing. Credit: Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

How Much Global Warming Is Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Locking In?

By Phil McKenna

Looking out over New York City and the state beyond. Credit: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images

New York Passes Ambitious Climate Bill, Aiming to Meet Paris Targets

By Phil McKenna

President Donald Trump issued an executive order to slash the number of science advisory committees by one-third, with more attrition planned. Credit: Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Trump Takes Ax to Gov't Advisory Committees, and Backlash Is Swift

By Phil McKenna

Enbridge offices in Edmonton, Canada. Credit: NurPhoto via Getty Images

2 Key U.S. Pipelines for Canadian Tar Sands Oil Run Into Trouble in the Midwest

By Phil McKenna

The ozone hole in 1979 and 2008. It's expected to decades longer to fully heal. Credit: NASA

Scientists Track a Banned Climate Pollutant's Mysterious Rise to Eastern China

By Phil McKenna

A sea of solar panels in a north Indian desert is part of the government's clean energy push. Credit: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images

India Is Now Investing More in Solar than Coal, but Will Its Energy Shift Continue?

By Phil McKenna

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, who is running for U.S. president on a climate platform, met with an organization that trains solar installers. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Washington Commits to 100% Clean Energy & Other States May Follow Suit

By Phil McKenna

A boy stands in a dried riverbed in Kenya. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Climate Change Worsened Global Inequality, Study Finds

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Plastic waste. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

4 Ways to Cut Plastic’s Growing Greenhouse Gas Emissions

By Phil McKenna

Remote regions of Puerto Rico have been using solar power for years. Now the U.S. territory’s legislature has approved a rapid, territory-wide scale-up to 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Credit: David S. Holloway/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Passes 100% Clean Energy Bill. Will Natural Gas Imports Get in the Way?

By Phil McKenna

Ponderosa pines two years after a wildfire in Colorado. Credit: Lyn Alweis/Denver Post via Getty Images

Iconic Forests Reaching Climate Tipping Points in American West, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

Haddock. Credit: Northeast Fisheries Science Center/NOAA

Climate Change Is Already Cutting Into the Global Fish Catch, and It's on Pace to Get Worse

By Phil McKenna

The UN's International Maritime Organization is responsible for measures to improve the safety and security of international shipping and to reduce pollution from ships. It has 174 member nations. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty ImagesThe UN's Internatio

Global Shipping Inches Forward on Heavy Fuel Oil Ban in Arctic

By Phil McKenna

Alaska wetlands. Credit: S Hillebrand/USFWS

Arctic Bogs Hold Another Global Warming Risk That Could Spiral Out of Control

By Phil McKenna

President-elect Donald Trump and President Barack Obama in 2016. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

What's Keeping Trump from Ratifying a Climate Treaty Even Republicans Support?

By Phil McKenna

Hangers that once kept aircraft out of the elements lay scattered in pieces across the flight line at Tyndall Air Force Base after Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida on Oct. 10, 2018. Credit: Staff Sgt. Alexander C. Henninger/U.S. Air Force

Hurricane Michael Cost This Military Base About $5 Billion. It's Just One of 2018's Disasters.

By Phil McKenna

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