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.
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
Crossing the Line: A Scientist’s Road From Neutrality to Activism
By Phil McKenna
Shipping Lines Turn to LNG-Powered Vessels, But They’re Worse for the Climate
By Phil McKenna
China, India Emissions Pledges May Not Be Reducing Powerful Warming Gas
By Phil McKenna
Protests Target a ‘Carbon Bomb’ Linking Two Major Pipelines Outside Boston
By Phil McKenna
UN Proposes Protecting 30% of Earth to Slow Extinctions and Climate Change
By Phil McKenna
Coal Train Protesters Target One of New England’s Last Big Coal Power Plants
By Phil McKenna
