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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In 2018, Cape Town, South Africa, one of the wealthiest cities in Africa, faced the prospect of running out of water. Thisย city of four million people was counting downย the daysย to โ€œDay Zero,โ€ when...
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2018 was the year the oil and gas industry promised that its darling, the shale fracking revolution, would stop focusing on endless productionย and instead turn a profit for its investors. But as th...
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As Canadian oil-by-rail numbers reach record new volumes (and expected to rise), Canada's Transportation Safety Board (TSB) announced recently that it would no longer listย shipping the hazardous ma...
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A Harvard research team recently announced plansย to perform early tests to shoot sunlight-reflecting particles into the high atmosphere toย slow or reverse globalย warming.ย  These research efforts,ย ...
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The Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently highlighted a little-discussedย benefit of using renewables like wind and solarย to produce electricity: Unlike most power sources, theyย requireย โ€œ...
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The first known oil well in Oklahoma happened by accident. It was 1859 andย Lewis Ross was actually drilling for saltwater (brine),ย not oil. Brine was highly valued at the time for the salt that cou...
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Around the U.S., many states and municipalities were voting in the U.S. midtermsย on races with implications for limiting the environmental and public health impacts of fossil fuels, particularlyย dr...
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In 2016, lower oil prices led to an overall drop in production for shale companies, whichย use horizontal drilling and fracking to extract oil and gas from shale formations such as the Marcellus and...
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At current prices, Canadian tar sands oilย producers are losing money on every barrel of oil they dig out. Despite signs earlier this year the industry would โ€œturn profitable in 2018,โ€ a much more l...
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As the midterm elections approach, DeSmog is taking this opportunity toย highlight some of the top climate science deniers currently running for office in the U.S. Did we miss someone notable? Let ...