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.
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
Climate Change Has Dangerously Supercharged Fires, Hurricanes, Floods and Heat Waves. Why Didn’t It Come Up More in the Presidential Campaign?
By Kiley Bense, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
‘Bad River,’ About a Tribe’s David vs. Goliath Pipeline Fight, Highlights the Power of Long-Term Thinking
By Victoria St. Martin, Phil McKenna
This Historic Ship Runs on Coal. Can It Find a New Way Forward?
By Phil McKenna
Focus on the ‘Forgotten Greenhouse Gas’ Intensifies as All Eyes Are on the U.S. and China to Curb Pollution
By Phil McKenna
