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.
‘We’re Being Wrapped in Poison’: A Century of Oil and Gas Development Has Devastated the Ponca City Region of Northern Oklahoma
By Phil McKenna
Chemours’ Process for Curtailing Greenhouse Gas Emissions Could Produce Hazardous Air Pollutants in Louisville
By James Bruggers, Phil McKenna
The NHL and Chemours Are Spreading ‘Dangerous Misinformation’ About Ice-Rink Refrigerants, a New Report Says
By Phil McKenna
Over 100 Nations at COP26 Pledge to Cut Global Methane Emissions by 30 Percent in Less Than a Decade
By Phil McKenna, Marianne Lavelle
Indigenous Climate Activists Arrested After ‘Occupying’ US Department of Interior
By Phil McKenna, Video by Aman Azhar
EPA Targets Potent Greenhouse Gases, Bringing US Into Compliance With the Kigali Amendment
By Phil McKenna
China Just Entered a Major International Climate Agreement. Now Comes the Hard Part
By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike
Global Methane Pledge Offers Hope on Climate in Lead Up to Glasgow
By Phil McKenna
The IPCC Understated the Need to Cut Emissions From Methane and Other Short-Lived Climate Pollutants, Climate Experts Say
By Phil McKenna
EPA Struggles to Track Methane Emissions From Landfills. Here’s Why It Matters
By James Bruggers, Amy Green, Phil McKenna, and Robert Benincasa
A Colorado Home Wins the Solar Decathlon, But Still Helps Cook the Planet
By Phil McKenna
Thousands Came to Minnesota to Protest New Construction on the Line 3 Pipeline. Hundreds Left in Handcuffs but More Vowed to Fight on.
By Sam Palca, Kristoffer Tigue, Phil McKenna
The EPA Proposes a Ban on HFC-23, the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Among Hydrofluorocarbons, by October 2022
By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers
The Senate Reinstates Methane Emissions Regulations Rolled Back by Trump, Marking a Clear Win for Climate Activists
By Phil McKenna
Ahead of the Climate Summit, Environmental Groups Urge Biden to Champion Methane Reductions as a Quick Warming Fix
By Phil McKenna
Chemours Says it Will Dramatically Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Aiming for Net Zero by 2050
By Phil McKenna
