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.
Standing Rock Asks Court to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline as Company Plans to Double Capacity
By Phil McKenna
Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play?
By Dan Gearino, Phil McKenna
Global Warming Is Worsening China's Pollution Problems, Studies Show
By Phil McKenna
EPA Proposes Clean Water Act Rules Change to Fast-Track Pipelines
By Phil McKenna
Fearing Oil Spills, Tribe Sues to Get a Major Pipeline Removed from Its Land
By Phil McKenna
Following Berkeley's Natural Gas Ban, More Cities Look to All-Electric Future
By Phil McKenna
How Much Global Warming Is Fossil Fuel Infrastructure Locking In?
By Phil McKenna
New York Passes Ambitious Climate Bill, Aiming to Meet Paris Targets
By Phil McKenna
Trump Takes Ax to Gov't Advisory Committees, and Backlash Is Swift
By Phil McKenna
2 Key U.S. Pipelines for Canadian Tar Sands Oil Run Into Trouble in the Midwest
By Phil McKenna
Scientists Track a Banned Climate Pollutant's Mysterious Rise to Eastern China
By Phil McKenna
India Is Now Investing More in Solar than Coal, but Will Its Energy Shift Continue?
By Phil McKenna
Washington Commits to 100% Clean Energy & Other States May Follow Suit
By Phil McKenna
Climate Change Worsened Global Inequality, Study Finds
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4 Ways to Cut Plastic’s Growing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Phil McKenna
Puerto Rico Passes 100% Clean Energy Bill. Will Natural Gas Imports Get in the Way?
By Phil McKenna
