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.

onJul 25, 2019 @ 10:35 PDT

The oil industry in North Dakota and Montanaย โ€” home to the prolificย Bakken Shale Formationย โ€” faces an โ€œimpossible choice.โ€ That's according to a new petition to federal regulators from the attorney...
onJul 19, 2019 @ 11:08 PDT

Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is getting a lot of attention these days, with U.S. producers making major investmentsย in the infrastructure to produce and export LNG to China and the rest of the world...
onJul 9, 2019 @ 03:00 PDT

On July 6, 2013, a train hauling crude oil from North Dakota's Bakken regionย derailed in Lac-Mรฉgantic, Quebec, resulting in fires and explosions that killed 47 people and wiped out a large part of ...
onJul 5, 2019 @ 09:25 PDT

From a natural gas industry conferenceย to a major metropolitan area, more signs are emerging that natural gas is in a losing economicย battleย with renewables and battery storage. And considering rec...
onJun 14, 2019 @ 10:58 PDT

On Juneย 6,ย the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announcedย that the company Energy Transport Solutions LLC had applied for a special permit to transport liquefied ...
onJun 3, 2019 @ 14:58 PDT

Natural gas, marketed for years as a โ€œbridge fuelโ€ to cleaner energy sources,ย cannot be part of any climate solution, according to a new reportย from Oil Changeย International. While its authors out...
onMay 30, 2019 @ 10:42 PDT

This week, the Trump administrationโ€™s Department of Transportation (DOT) withdrew another rail safety recommendationย originallyย proposed during the Obama administration. In the process, the agency ...
onMay 23, 2019 @ 16:18 PDT

In this weekโ€™s Congressional hearing on the recent (and dire)ย UN Global Assessment of Biodiversity, conservation scientist Dr. Jacob Malcomย did not mince words as he explained the report's startlin...
onMay 14, 2019 @ 15:10 PDT

Today President Donald Trump appeared at Louisiana'sย $10 billion Cameron Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export facilityย to promote LNG exportsย and American โ€œenergyย independence.โ€ Trumpโ€™s visit to the...
onMay 14, 2019 @ 09:11 PDT

Warren Buffett, CEO of investment holding company Berkshire Hathaway, is considered one of the top investors in history and can back up that track record with a personal wealth of around $90 billio...