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.
API Disputes African-American Health Study, Cites Genetics
By Phil McKenna
‘This Is an Emergency’: 1 Million African Americans Live Near Oil, Gas Facilities
By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Exclusive: Standing Rock Leader on Dakota Pipeline, Tribal Sovereignty & Being Voted Out
By Phil McKenna
Election Winners Promise Climate Action in Coast-to-Coast Pushback on Trump
By Phil McKenna
Nurses in Puerto Rico See First-Hand Health Crisis from Climate Disasters
By Phil McKenna
Judge Allows 'Necessity' Defense by Climate Activists in Oil Pipeline Protest
By Phil McKenna
Puerto Rico: Hurricane Maria Laid Bare Existing 'Inequalities and Injustices'
By Phil McKenna
Judge Deals Blow to Tribes in Dakota Access Pipeline Ruling
By Phil McKenna
Desperation Grows in Puerto Rico’s Poor Communities Without Water or Power
By Phil McKenna
‘People Are Dying’: Puerto Rico Faces Daunting Humanitarian Crisis
By Phil McKenna
Devastated Puerto Rico Tests Fairness of Response to Climate Disasters
By Phil McKenna
Why Worry About Ticks? This One Almost Killed Me
By Phil McKenna
Thousands of Low-Income Residents in Flooded Port Arthur Suffer Slow FEMA Aid
By Phil McKenna
New Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Isn’t Worth the Risks, Minnesota Officials Say
By Phil McKenna
Court Rejects Pipeline Rubber-Stamp, Orders Climate Impact Review
By Phil McKenna
Trump Admin. Halts Mountaintop Mining Health Risks Study
By Phil McKenna
