Phil McKenna
Phil McKenna is a Boston-based reporter for InsideClimate 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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Moderate Democrats: Splitting the party in two
This is the most important midterm election in American history. If the Democratic Party leadership splits the party and the Republicans win, Democrats will go the way of the Whig and the Tory.
ICE killed a Maine father during an operation targeting someone else
Joan Sebastian Guerrero was fatally shot while driving to work, leaving conflicting federal and eyewitness accounts of why an immigration agent opened fire.
Federal agents turned crowd-control weapons on protesters and journalists
Researchers documented hundreds of cases involving close-range attacks, head shots and injuries ranging from blindness to traumatic brain damage.
Inside ICE’s largest detention center
A new investigation describes deaths, medical neglect, hidden detainees, and private contractors inside Camp East Montana at Fort Bliss.
Justice Department probe tests the UAW’s reform movement
Shawn Fain denies allegations that he misused union authority as a federal investigation and leadership election place one of organized labor’s most prominent unions under new pressure.