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.
Hurricane Michael Cost This Military Base About $5 Billion. It's Just One of 2018's Disasters.
By Phil McKenna
Coal Mines Likely Drove China’s Recent Methane Emissions Rise, Study Says
By Phil McKenna
9 States Target Transportation Emissions with Cap-and-Trade Plan
By Phil McKenna
That Global Warming Hiatus? It Never Happened. Two New Studies Explain Why.
By Phil McKenna
World Health Leaders: Climate Change Is Putting Lives, Health Systems at Risk
By Phil McKenna
California’s Wildfire & Climate Change Warnings Are Still Too Conservative, Scientist Says
By Phil McKenna
Rising Demand for Air Conditioning Is Adding to Global Warming. The Numbers Are Striking.
By Phil McKenna
Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline, Says Climate Impact Can't Be Ignored
By Phil McKenna
Puerto Rico Considers 100% Renewable Energy, But Natural Gas May Come First
By Phil McKenna
Pollution Controls Failed Within Years on Certain Heavy Duty Trucks, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna
An Ambitious Global Effort to Cut Shipping Emissions Stalls
By Phil McKenna
That $3 Trillion-a-Year Clean Energy Transformation? It’s Already Underway.
By Phil McKenna
Keeping Global Warming to 1.5 Degrees Means Reducing Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, Too
By Phil McKenna
After Dozens of Explosions, a Community Looks for Alternatives to Natural Gas
By Phil McKenna
New York, Maryland, Connecticut Move to Phase Out Climate Super-Pollutants
By Phil McKenna
National Teachers Group Confronts Climate Denial: Keep Politics Out of Science Class
By Phil McKenna
