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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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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

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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

Coal miners in northern China. Credit: Str/AFP/Getty

Coal Mines Likely Drove China’s Recent Methane Emissions Rise, Study Says

By Phil McKenna

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9 States Target Transportation Emissions with Cap-and-Trade Plan

By Phil McKenna

Globe sculpture outside a tennis stadium in New York. Credit: Robert Laberge/Getty Images

That Global Warming Hiatus? It Never Happened. Two New Studies Explain Why.

By Phil McKenna

Patients wait for medical care during a dengue fever scare in 2015 in India. Credit: Arun Sharma/Hindustan Times via Getty Images

World Health Leaders: Climate Change Is Putting Lives, Health Systems at Risk

By Phil McKenna

Burned cars line a road near Paradise, California, after the state's deadliest wildfire swept through the town in November. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

California’s Wildfire & Climate Change Warnings Are Still Too Conservative, Scientist Says

By Phil McKenna

Air conditioning units line a street in New Delhi, India. Credit: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images

Rising Demand for Air Conditioning Is Adding to Global Warming. The Numbers Are Striking.

By Phil McKenna

Pipeline intended for Keystone XL lays unused in a field. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Judge Blocks Keystone XL Pipeline, Says Climate Impact Can't Be Ignored

By Phil McKenna

Hospitals in Puerto Rico got an infusion of solar power from Tesla after Hurricane Maria struck in 2017 and it became clear power would be out for months. Credit: Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images

Puerto Rico Considers 100% Renewable Energy, But Natural Gas May Come First

By Phil McKenna

Trucks line up to enter a berth at the Port of Oakland. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Pollution Controls Failed Within Years on Certain Heavy Duty Trucks, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

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An Ambitious Global Effort to Cut Shipping Emissions Stalls

By Phil McKenna

Wind farm construction. Credit: Dennis Schroeder/NREL

That $3 Trillion-a-Year Clean Energy Transformation? It’s Already Underway.

By Phil McKenna

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