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 3M Plant in Illinois Was The Country’s Worst Emitter of a Climate-Killing ‘Immortal’ Chemical in 2021
By Phil McKenna
Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases
By Phil McKenna, and Lili Pike, Grid China Reporter
Why American Aluminum Plants Emit Far More Climate Pollution Than Some of Their Counterparts Abroad
By Phil McKenna
Want to Help Reduce PFC Emissions? Recycle Those Cans
By Phil McKenna
Who Were the Worst Climate Polluters in the US in 2021?
By Phil McKenna
New EPA Proposal to Augment Methane Regulations Would Help Achieve an 87% Reduction From the Oil and Gas Industry by 2030
By Phil McKenna
A New Study from China on Methane Leaks from the Sabotaged Nord Stream Pipelines Found that the Climate Impact Was ‘Tiny’ and Nothing ‘to Worry About’
By Phil McKenna
A New Report Suggests 6 ‘Magic’ Measures to Curb Emissions of Super-Polluting Refrigerants
By Phil McKenna
Pressing Safety Concerns, Opponents of the Mountain Valley Pipeline Gear Up for the Next Round of Battle
By Phil McKenna
Senate Votes to Ratify the Kigali Amendment, Joining 137 Nations in an Effort to Curb Global Warming
By Phil McKenna
Duke Energy Is Leaking a Potent Climate-Warming Gas at More Than Five Times the Rate of Other Utilities
By Phil McKenna
How a Successful EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled
By Phil McKenna
Deep in the Democrats’ Climate Bill, Analysts See More Wins for Clean Energy Than Gifts for Fossil Fuel Business
By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino, Georgina Gustin, Phil McKenna
Space Tourism Poses a Significant ‘Risk to the Climate’
By Phil McKenna
Every Hour, This Gas Storage Station Sends Half a Ton of Methane Into the Atmosphere
By Phil McKenna, Inside Climate News and Alex Rozier, Mississippi Today
New Study Says World Must Cut Short-Lived Climate Pollutants as Well as Carbon Dioxide to Meet Paris Agreement Goals
By Phil McKenna
