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.
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
Governor Rejects Shutdown of Great Lakes Oil Pipeline That's Losing Its Coating
By Phil McKenna
New Jersey to Rejoin East Coast Carbon Market, Virginia May Be Next
By Phil McKenna
TransCanada: Keystone XL Has Enough Suppliers, Will Be Built
By Phil McKenna
New York Rejects a Natural Gas Pipeline, and Federal Regulators Say That's OK
By Phil McKenna
106 Lawmakers Urge Trump to Put Climate Change Back in National Security Strategy
By Phil McKenna
Environmental Justice Grabs a Megaphone in the Climate Movement
By Phil McKenna
Beyond Standing Rock: 'There Is a Real War Going On' for Environmental Justice
By Phil McKenna
Judge Orders Dakota Access Pipeline Spill Response Plan, with Tribe's Input
By Phil McKenna
Plan to Burn Hurricane Debris Sparks Health Fears in U.S. Virgin Islands
By Phil McKenna
Cause of Keystone Pipeline Spill Worries South Dakota as Oil Flow Resumes
By Phil McKenna
