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 Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry Will Be No Stranger to International Climate Negotiations
By Phil McKenna
Post Election, Climate and Racial Justice Protesters Gather in Boston Over Ballot Counting
By Phil McKenna
Too Much Sun Degrades Coatings That Keep Pipes From Corroding, Risking Leaks, Spills and Explosions
By Phil McKenna
Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast on a Worst-Case Trajectory
By Phil McKenna
A Chinese Chemical Company Captures and Reuses 6,000 Tons of a Super-Polluting Greenhouse Gas
By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike
In a Move That Could be Catastrophic for the Climate, Trump’s EPA Rolls Back Methane Regulations
By Phil McKenna
Tree Deaths in Urban Settings Are Linked to Leaks from Natural Gas Pipelines Below Streets
By Phil McKenna
Super-Polluting Methane Emissions Twice Federal Estimates in Permian Basin, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna
Tribes Sue to Halt Trump Plan for Channeling Emergency Funds to Alaska Native Corporations
By Phil McKenna
U.S. Appeals Court in D.C. Restores Limitations on Super-Polluting HFCs
By Phil McKenna
Trump’s Fuel Efficiency Reduction Would Be Largest Anti-Climate Rollback Ever
By Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Trump’s Move to Suspend Enforcement of Environmental Laws is a Lifeline to the Oil Industry
By David Hasemyer, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna
A Federal Court Delivers a Victory for Sioux Tribe, Another Blow for the Dakota Access Pipeline
By Phil McKenna
A Plant in Florida Emits Vast Quantities of a Greenhouse Gas Nearly 300 Times More Potent Than CO2
By Phil McKenna
Long Phased-Out Refrigeration and Insulation Chemicals Still Widely in Use and Warming the Climate
By Phil McKenna
Uber and Lyft Are Convenient, Competitive and Highly Carbon Intensive
By Phil McKenna
