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.
Keystone XL: Low Oil Prices, Tar Sands Pullout Could Kill Pipeline
By Phil McKenna
Pipeline Payday: How Builders Win Big, Whether Gas Is Needed or Not
By Phil McKenna
50% Rise in Renewable Energy Needed to Meet Ambitious State Standards
By Phil McKenna
Rover Gas Pipeline Builder Faces Investigation by Federal Regulators
By Phil McKenna
Ranchers Fight Keystone XL Pipeline by Putting Solar Panels in Its Path
By Phil McKenna
Climate Change Will Hit Southern Poor Hardest, U.S. Economic Analysis Shows
By Phil McKenna
Southwest's Deadly Heat Wave Previews Life in a Warming World
By Phil McKenna
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 Flooding the Midwest Looks a Lot Like Climate Change
By Phil McKenna
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/
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 House Passes Bill to Roll Back Renewable Energy Standards, Again
By Phil McKenna
