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.
California Utility Says Clean Energy Will Replace Power From State's Last Nuclear Plant
By Phil McKenna
For Virgin Islands, Being on the Frontlines of Climate Impacts Is Grounds for a Lawsuit
By Phil McKenna
Protesters Arrested for Blocking Railroad in Call for Oil-by-Rail Moratorium
By Phil McKenna
Texas Professor Talks Climate in Oil Industry's Training Ground
By Phil McKenna
Environmental Group Alleges Scientific Fraud in Disputed Methane Studies
By Phil McKenna
Exxon's Donations, Ties to AGU Are Larger and Deeper Than Previously Recognized
By Phil McKenna, Zahra Hirji and Lisa Song
Exxon Rebuffs Shareholder Requests to Address Climate Change
By Phil McKenna
EPA Begins Crackdown on Methane Emissions
By Phil McKenna
Denmark Is Kicking Its Fossil Fuel Habit. Can the Rest of the World Follow?
By Phil McKenna
Oil Giants Would Be Worth More by Drilling Less in a Low-Carbon World, Analysts Say
By Phil McKenna
Activists Step Up Long-Running Campaign to Hold Oil Industry Accountable for Climate Damages
By Phil McKenna
Spikes in U.S. Air Pollution Linked to Warming Climate
By Phil McKenna
AGU Will Accept Exxon Money, Despite Scientists' Protest
By Phil McKenna, Zahra Hirji
New Study Reaffirms the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
By Phil McKenna
No Shortcuts Found for Spotting Wells That Leak the Most Methane
By Phil McKenna
Keystone I Leak Raises More Doubts About Pipeline Safety
By Phil McKenna
