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.
Canada's Climate Change Policies Keep Its Paris Commitments Out of Reach
By Phil McKenna
Pruitt Denies the Basic Science of Climate Change
By Phil McKenna
Chief Environmental Justice Official at EPA Resigns, With Plea to Pruitt
By Phil McKenna
UK Carbon Emissions Fall to 19th Century Levels as Government Phases Out Coal
By Phil McKenna
Confidential DAPL Memo: Standing Rock Not a Disadvantaged Community Impacted by Pipeline
By Phil McKenna
Antarctic Sea Ice Sets Record Low, Providing Another Mystery for Scientists
By Phil McKenna
As Budget Cuts Loom, Former EPA Officials Make Plea to Trump to Continue Agency's Work
By Phil McKenna
Children's Climate Lawsuit Aims to Unearth Documents From Oil Group
By Phil McKenna
State AGs Rally to Defend NY, Mass. Investigations of Exxon
By Phil McKenna
China's Carbon Emissions Falling, While Trump Points U.S. in Opposite Direction
By Phil McKenna
Standing Rock Tribe Prepares Legal Fight as Dakota Oil Pipeline Gets Final Approval
By Phil McKenna
Dakota Access Pipeline: Army Corps Is Ordered to Comply With Trump's Order
By Phil McKenna
Keystone XL, Dakota Pipelines Will Draw Mass Resistance, Native Groups Promise
By Phil McKenna
Standing Rock Leaders Tell Dakota Access Protesters to Go Home
By Phil McKenna
Keystone XL, Dakota Pipeline Green-Lighted in Trump Executive Actions
By Phil McKenna
Wisconsin Tribe Votes to Evict Oil Pipeline From Its Reservation
By Phil McKenna