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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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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

Public opinion in most of the world is in line with the science, but not in the U.S.

New Study Reaffirms the Scientific Consensus on Climate Change

By Phil McKenna

The Aliso Canyon natural gas leak brought new attention to methane leaks

No Shortcuts Found for Spotting Wells That Leak the Most Methane

By Phil McKenna

A Keystone 1 leak in South Dakota raises more fears about pipeline safety

Keystone I Leak Raises More Doubts About Pipeline Safety

By Phil McKenna

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon speaks at the Paris climate conference in December 2015

Study Sends a Warning to Wall Street of Trillions at Risk From Climate Change

By Phil McKenna

Property Rights Outcry Stops Billion-Dollar Pipeline in Georgia

By Phil McKenna

Methane Hazard Lurks in Boston's Aging, Leaking Gas Pipes, Study Says

By Phil McKenna

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