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.
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
Courts Question Pipeline Builders’ Use of Eminent Domain to Take Land
By Phil McKenna
Dozens of Countries Take Aim at Climate Super Pollutants
By Phil McKenna
A Shantytown’s Warning to the World from the Hurricane-Ravaged Bahamas
By Phil McKenna
Western Coal Takes Another Hit as Appeals Court Rules Against Export Terminal
By Phil McKenna
Standing Rock Asks Court to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline as Company Plans to Double Capacity
By Phil McKenna
Government Delays First Big U.S. Offshore Wind Farm. Is a Double Standard at Play?
By Dan Gearino, Phil McKenna
Global Warming Is Worsening China's Pollution Problems, Studies Show
By Phil McKenna
