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.
			
		
			
		Global Shipping Inches Forward on Heavy Fuel Oil Ban in Arctic
By Phil McKenna
			
		Arctic Bogs Hold Another Global Warming Risk That Could Spiral Out of Control
By Phil McKenna
			
		What's Keeping Trump from Ratifying a Climate Treaty Even Republicans Support?
By Phil McKenna
			
		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