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.
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
Tribe Says Army Corps Stonewalling on Dakota Access Pipeline Report, Oil Spill Risk
By Phil McKenna
California Climate Report Adds to Evidence as State Pushes Back on Trump
By Phil McKenna
Water Use in Fracking Soars — Exceeding Rise in Fuels Produced, Study Says
By Phil McKenna
Could Dairy Cows Make Up for California's Aliso Canyon Methane Leak?
By Phil McKenna
7 States Urge Pipeline Regulators to Pay Attention to Climate Change
By Phil McKenna
‘We Will Be Waiting’: Tribe Says Keystone XL Construction Is Not Welcome
By Phil McKenna
Ireland Set to Divest from Fossil Fuels, First Country in Global Campaign
By Phil McKenna
Controversial Tar Sands Pipeline Approved in Minnesota Wild Rice Region
By Phil McKenna
Coastal Real Estate Worth Billions at Risk of Chronic Flooding as Sea Level Rises
By Phil McKenna
Public Comments on Pipeline Plans May Be Slipping Through Cracks at FERC, Audit Says
By Phil McKenna
Obama's Climate Leaders Launch New Harvard Center on Health and Climate
By Phil McKenna
Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Civil Rights Complaint After Key Permit Is Blocked
By Phil McKenna
In California, Climate Change Is an ‘Immediate and Escalating’ Threat
By Phil McKenna
