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.
Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators
By Phil McKenna
Apple Goes a Step Too Far in Claiming a Carbon Neutral Product, a New Report Concludes
By Phil McKenna
Crucial for a Clean Energy Economy, the Aluminum Industry’s Carbon Footprint Is Enormous
By Phil McKenna
Federal Regulators Raise Safety Concerns Over Mountain Valley Pipeline in Formal Notice
By Phil McKenna
A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It.
By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous
California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass.
By Phil McKenna, Georgina Gustin, Peter Aldhous
A US Non-Profit Aims to Reduce Emissions of a Super Climate Pollutant From Chemical Plants in China
By Phil McKenna
Federal Regulations Fail to Contain Methane Emissions from Landfills
By Phil McKenna, Amy Green
Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide
By Phil McKenna
Environmental Advocates Protest Outside EPA Headquarters Over the Slow Pace of New Climate and Clean Air Regulations
By Phil McKenna, Emma Ricketts
Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds
By Phil McKenna
‘Green Hydrogen’ Would Squander Renewable Energy Resources in Massachusetts
By Phil McKenna
US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows
By Phil McKenna
Supersonic Aviation Program Could Cause ‘Climate Debacle,’ Environmentalists Warn
By Phil McKenna
A 3M Plant in Illinois Was The Country’s Worst Emitter of a Climate-Killing ‘Immortal’ Chemical in 2021
By Phil McKenna
Why Chinese Aluminum Producers Emit So Much of Some of the World’s Most Damaging Greenhouse Gases
By Phil McKenna, and Lili Pike, Grid China Reporter
