Justin Mikulka

About

Justin Mikulka is a research fellow at New Consensus. Prior to joining New Consensus in October 2021, Justin reported for DeSmog, where he began in 2014. Justin has a degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University.

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Two years ago, the U.S. fracking industry was trying to recover from the crash in the price of oil. Shale companies wereย promotingย the idea that fracking was viable even at low oil prices (despite ...
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The U.S. exported a record 3.6 million barrels per day of oil in February. This oil is the result of the American fracking boomย โ€” and as a report from Oil Change Internationalย recently noted โ€” its ...
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The government of Alberta, Canada, the heart of tar sands country, recently announcedย plans to get into the oil-by-rail business. Attempting to work around a lack of pipelines, the provincial gover...
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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti recently announced the city is scrapping plans for a multi-billion-dollarย update to three natural gas power plants, instead choosing toย investย in renewable energy an...
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A new report makes the case that the fossil fuel industry prefers geoengineering as anย approach for addressing climate change becauseย it allowsย the industry to keep arguingย for continuedย fossil fue...
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The only way to haveย a rail accident that is โ€œeerily similarโ€ to theย Lac-Mรฉgantic oil train disaster that killed 47 people and wiped out the small Quebec downtownย is if a massive regulatory failure...
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The fracked gas industry's long borrowing binge may finally be hitting a hard reality: paying backย investors. Enabled by rising debt, shale companies have been achievingย record fracked oil and gas...
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In 2018, the oil and gas industry operating in North Dakotaโ€™s Bakken Shale burned off record amounts ofย natural gas, largely obtained via hydraulic fracturing (fracking). This process, known as fla...
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Although the partial U.S. government shutdown, now marching into its fourth week,ย isnโ€™t hurting the oil and gas industry, according to Mike Sommers, the head of the American Petroleum Institute (AP...
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A version of the Green New Deal (GND) โ€” an FDR-style plan toย address climate change by shiftingย America to a just and renewably poweredย 21st century economy โ€” is widely popular with American voters...