Phil McKenna

Phil McKenna

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.
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US will see 73% rise in premature deaths caused by wildfire smoke, new study warns

The increase in deaths from wildfire smoke would represent some of the country’s most costly consequences of a warming climate…

This town was one of the first in the nation to install a geothermal network. Now others are warming up to the idea.

More than a decade after West Union, Iowa, tapped geothermal energy, the town’s heating and cooling network is a “celebrity”…