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.
Across the US, Awe Unites During the Darkness of a Total Solar Eclipse
By Lee Hedgepeth, Erin Schulte, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross, Phil McKenna
California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross
Oil and Gas Executives Blast ‘LNG Pause,’ Call Natural Gas a ‘Destination Fuel’
By Phil McKenna
MIT’s Sloan School Launches Ambitious Climate Center to Aid Policymakers
By Phil McKenna
A New EDF-Harvard Satellite Will Monitor Methane Emissions From Oil and Gas Production Worldwide
By Phil McKenna
Enbridge Wants Line 5 Shutdown Order Overturned on Tribal Land in Northern Wisconsin
By Phil McKenna, Noel Lyn Smith
Sen. Joe Manchin Eyes a Possible Third Party Presidential Run
By Phil McKenna
Republican Presidential Candidate Nikki Haley Says Climate Change is Real. Is She Proposing Anything to Stop It?
By Phil McKenna
Is California Overstating the Climate Benefit of Dairy Manure Methane Digesters?
By Phil McKenna
Reducing Methane From Livestock Is Critical for Stabilizing the Climate, but Congress Continues to Block Farms From Reporting Emissions Anyway
By Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna
Government, Corporate and Philanthropic Interests Coalesce On Curbing Methane Emissions as Calls at COP28 for Binding Global Methane Agreement Intensify
By Phil McKenna
Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?
By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
Who Were the Worst of the Worst Climate Polluters in 2022?
By Phil McKenna
Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators
By Phil McKenna
Apple Goes a Step Too Far in Claiming a Carbon Neutral Product, a New Report Concludes
By Phil McKenna
Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous
By Phil McKenna
