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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Asย attendees ofย this year's annual Energy Information Administration (EIA) conference walked into the Washington, D.C., Hilton Hotel on June 4, there was a bit of confusion. The only conference sig...
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A lawsuit filed in March by the Southern Environmental Law Center and Environmental Defense Fund has revealed new levels of coordination between Scott Pruitt'sย Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
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Last year the fracking company Halcรณn Resourcesย announced a new strategy that was sold as the path to profits for the previously troubled shale oil and gas firm. The company had sold its stake in t...
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Columbia Universityโ€™s Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) is a hugely influential policy group filled with heavy hitters from politics and the oil industry. While the center's home pageย describes...
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Most people probably arenโ€™t familiar with the acronym ZIRP. It stands for zero interest rate policy and is the policy that unintentionally created the American fracking bubble โ€” just one of its man...
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The U.S. shale oil industry hailed as a โ€œrevolutionโ€ย has burned through a quarter trillion dollars more than it has brought inย over the last decade. It has been a money-losing endeavor of epicย prop...
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The oil industry learned an important lesson from its rush to moveย by train the highly flammable oil drilled in North Dakota's Bakken Shale. The lesson wasn't that those oil trains were unsafe and ...
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This past week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt declared that the EPA would now consider burning wood and other forest products for energy as โ€œcarbon neutral,โ€...
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EOG Resources is one of the top companies in the fracking industry, and thanks to the new tax bill passedย by Republicans and President Donald Trump at the end of last year,ย EOGย had an exceptionally...
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Investors love a good comeback story and right nowย oil by railย seems to be a story they'reย pushing to justify investmentย in rail companies,ย especially Canadianย ones. But with little change in safe...