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.
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
New York City Aims for All-Electric Bus Fleet by 2040
By Phil McKenna
Pipeline Ruling Could Strengthen Tribes' Legal Case Against Enbridge Line 3
By Phil McKenna
Pruitt Takes Clean Water Act Decisions Away from Regional EPA Offices
By Phil McKenna
Global Emissions Rose in 2017, But U.S. and China Both Made Progress
By Phil McKenna
EPA Environmental Justice Adviser Slams Pruitt's Plan to Weaken Coal Ash Rules
By Phil McKenna
Standing Rock: Dakota Access Pipeline Leak Technology Can't Detect All Spills
By Phil McKenna
EPA Rejects Civil Rights Complaint Over Alabama Coal Ash Dump
By Phil McKenna
Powerful Winter Storms Show the Damage High Tides With Sea Level Rise Can Do
By Phil McKenna
EPA Finds Black Americans Face More Health-Threatening Air Pollution
By Phil McKenna
Power Plants' Coal Ash Reports Show Toxics Leaking into Groundwater
By Phil McKenna
