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.
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
Alaska's Grizzly Bears Drop Salmon for Berries as Climate Changes
By Phil McKenna
As Arctic Sea Ice Disappears, 2,000 Walruses Mob a Remote Alaska Beach
By Phil McKenna
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
