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.
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
2020: A Year of Pipeline Court Fights, with One Lawsuit Headed to the Supreme Court
By Phil McKenna
Elizabeth Warren on Climate Change: Where the Candidate Stands
By Phil McKenna
These Cities Want to Ban Natural Gas. But Would It Be Legal?
By Phil McKenna
Climate Change Threatens 60% of Toxic Superfund Sites, GAO Finds
By Phil McKenna
Fearing for Its Future, a Major Utility Seizes on ‘Renewable Gas’ and Fighting Electrification
By Phil McKenna
Keystone Pipeline Spills 383,000 Gallons of Oil into North Dakota Wetlands
By Phil McKenna
Kids Sue Canada for Contributing to Climate Change
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South Dakota Backs Off Harsh New Protest Law and ‘Riot-Boosting’ Penalties
By Phil McKenna
