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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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Pipes for a pipeline. Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images

Pipeline Payday: How Builders Win Big, Whether Gas Is Needed or Not

By Phil McKenna

Wind turbines at San Gorgonio Pass, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty

50% Rise in Renewable Energy Needed to Meet Ambitious State Standards

By Phil McKenna

An Energy Transfer Partners subsidiary purchased and then tore down the Stoneman House. Credit: Google Maps

Rover Gas Pipeline Builder Faces Investigation by Federal Regulators

By Phil McKenna

Farm owners and ranchers are installing solar panels along stretches of their land that Keystone XL pipeline builder TransCanada wants to take using eminent domain.

Ranchers Fight Keystone XL Pipeline by Putting Solar Panels in Its Path

By Phil McKenna

Air conditioner repair during a southern heat wave.

Climate Change Will Hit Southern Poor Hardest, U.S. Economic Analysis Shows

By Phil McKenna

Large parts of the U.S. Southwest have been feeling like Death Valley this week.

Southwest's Deadly Heat Wave Previews Life in a Warming World

By Phil McKenna

The boundary of Southern California Gas Company property, where Aliso Canyon Storage Field is located.

EPA's Methane Estimates for Oil & Gas Sector Under Investigation

By Phil McKenna

Dakota Pipeline Is Ready for Oil, Without a Spill Plan for Standing Rock

By Phil McKenna

Extreme weather caused flooding in Arnold, Missouri, outside St. Louis

Extreme Weather Flooding the Midwest Looks a Lot Like Climate Change

By Phil McKenna

Worker on a wind energy turbine at  the National Wind Technology Center at National Renewable Energy Laboratory

U.S. Wind Energy Installations Surge: New Turbine Rises Every 2.4 Hours

By Phil McKenna

America's First Offshore Wind Energy Makes Landfall in Rhode Island

By Phil McKenna

Educators Decry Heartland's Climate 'Propaganda' Sent to Schoolteachers

By Phil McKenna, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/climate-change-skeptic-group-seeks-to-influence-200000-teachers/

A solar photovoltaic power project in Yantai, Shandong Province of China.

More Renewable Energy for Less: Capacity Grew in 2016 as Costs Fell

By Phil McKenna

Standing Rock's Dakota Pipeline Fight Brought Hope, Then More Misery

By Phil McKenna

Ohio Gov. John Kasich has championed his state's renewable energy standards

Ohio House Passes Bill to Roll Back Renewable Energy Standards, Again

By Phil McKenna

Native Americans have led the latest protest against Keystone XL

Keystone XL: Environmental and Native Groups Sue to Halt Pipeline

By Phil McKenna

Students blocked the entrance to Harvard's administration building to urge the school to divest from fossil fuels

Fossil Fuel Divestment: Harvard Students Blockade Entrance in Protest

By Phil McKenna

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Donald Trump in March

Canada's Climate Change Policies Keep Its Paris Commitments Out of Reach

By Phil McKenna

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