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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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A wildfire burns in the hills near an industrial facility outside Corona, California, in August 2018. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Climate Report Adds to Evidence as State Pushes Back on Trump

By Phil McKenna

A horizontal gas drilling rig explores the Marcellus Shale outside the town of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. Credit: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images

Water Use in Fracking Soars — Exceeding Rise in Fuels Produced, Study Says

By Phil McKenna

Dairy cows, like this one in California, are major sources of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Could Dairy Cows Make Up for California's Aliso Canyon Methane Leak?

By Phil McKenna

Pipeline. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

7 States Urge Pipeline Regulators to Pay Attention to Climate Change

By Phil McKenna

Harold Frazier, chairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, supported the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's challenge to the Dakota Access pipeline. He is now pushing back on plans for Keystone XL to cross near tribal land. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

‘We Will Be Waiting’: Tribe Says Keystone XL Construction Is Not Welcome

By Phil McKenna

The Overpass Light Brigade sends a message to the University of Wisconsin, urging divestment from fossil fuel companies. Credit: Joe Brusky/CC-BY-NC-2.0

Ireland Set to Divest from Fossil Fuels, First Country in Global Campaign

By Phil McKenna

A protester outside the meeting where Minnesota regulators discussed approval of a new Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline. Credit: Lorie Shaull/CC-BY-SA-2.0

Controversial Tar Sands Pipeline Approved in Minnesota Wild Rice Region

By Phil McKenna

During this winter's nor'easters, high tides flooded the streets of Scituate, Massachusetts. The town faces rising costs to keep the ocean at bay. Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

Coastal Real Estate Worth Billions at Risk of Chronic Flooding as Sea Level Rises

By Phil McKenna

Pipeline proposals have drawn large public protests, as well as formal comments opposing them.  Credit: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

Public Comments on Pipeline Plans May Be Slipping Through Cracks at FERC, Audit Says

By Phil McKenna

Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, shown here in an earlier photo, will head Harvard's new Center for Climate, Health and the Global Environment. Credit: Saul Loeb/Getty Images

Obama's Climate Leaders Launch New Harvard Center on Health and Climate

By Phil McKenna

Embattled Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Environmental Justice Complaint

Atlantic Coast Pipeline Faces Civil Rights Complaint After Key Permit Is Blocked

By Phil McKenna

Five of California's largest fire years have been since 2006. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

In California, Climate Change Is an ‘Immediate and Escalating’ Threat

By Phil McKenna

New York City plans to take its buses electric. Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

New York City Aims for All-Electric Bus Fleet by 2040

By Phil McKenna

Members of the Leech Lake Band of the Ojibwe Tribe harvest wild rice on their reservation, which the new Line 3 pipeline would pass through. Credit: George Stringham/U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Pipeline Ruling Could Strengthen Tribes' Legal Case Against Enbridge Line 3

By Phil McKenna

Scott Pruitt, EPA administrator under President Trump. Credit: Zach Gibson/AFP/Getty Images

Pruitt Takes Clean Water Act Decisions Away from Regional EPA Offices

By Phil McKenna

Smokestacks over an urban landscape. Credit: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images

Global Emissions Rose in 2017, But U.S. and China Both Made Progress

By Phil McKenna

Coal ash ponds in North Carolina. Credit: Waterkeeper Alliance

EPA Environmental Justice Adviser Slams Pruitt's Plan to Weaken Coal Ash Rules

By Phil McKenna

Ron His Horse Is Thunder, a Standing Rock Tribe spokesman, stands near the Dakota Access pipeline protest camp in 2016. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

Standing Rock: Dakota Access Pipeline Leak Technology Can't Detect All Spills

By Phil McKenna

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