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.
As EPA Rolls Back Regulations for Large Industrial Polluters, It Finds a New Target: A Two-Person Geoengineering Startup
By Phil McKenna
The Hidden Climate Costs of Exporting US Liquefied Natural Gas
By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
Trump Administration Launches All-Out Assault on Environmental Protection
By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Can the World’s Largest Ice Rink Survive a Warming Planet?
By Phil McKenna
A Third Generation Driller Transitions from Oil and Gas to Geothermal
By Phil McKenna
‘The Devil Will Bite You,’ Environmentalists Tell Japan’s Prime Minister on Eve of Trump Summit
By Phil McKenna
GOP Lawmakers Seek to Roll Back Methane Fee
By Phil McKenna
As MIT Aims to Decarbonize, Competing Ideas Focus on Thermal Energy Systems
By Phil McKenna
Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge
By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna
A Little-Known Clean Energy Solution Could Soon Reach ‘Liftoff’
By Phil McKenna
How an Unlikely Coalition of Climate Activists and a Gas Utility Are Weaning a Boston Suburb Off Fossil Fuels
By Phil McKenna
Biden Sets Higher U.S. Goal Under the Climate Pact That Trump Aims to Abandon
By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Harvard University Doubles Down on Emissions Reductions
By Phil McKenna
The Tug-of-War on This Climate Super Pollutant Has Big Implications for the Future
By Phil McKenna
US Diplomats Notch a Win on Climate Super Pollutants With Help From the Private Sector
By Phil McKenna
Despite Likely Setback for Climate Action With This Year’s Election, New Climate Champions Set to Enter Congress
By Wyatt Myskow, Dennis Pillion, Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna
