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.

onMay 5, 2019 @ 13:27 PDT

As the time left to avoid climate catastrophe counts down, the U.S. oil and gas industry is making a massive bet on exporting its products to the rest of the world for the next several decades โ€” a ...
onApr 27, 2019 @ 04:00 PDT

A new analysis by Clean Technica found that global investmentย in carbon capture and storage technology (CCS) adds upย to roughly $7.5 billion total.ย Itย also examinedย how much,ย for that investment,ย C...
onApr 25, 2019 @ 10:20 PDT

Early in the morning on April 24, anย ethanol train derailed, exploded, and burned near Fort Worth, Texas, reportedly destroying a horse stable, killing three horses, and causing the evacuation of n...
onApr 18, 2019 @ 15:17 PDT

After a decade of the American fracking industry burning through hundreds of billions of dollars more than it earned, this industry previously dominated by shaleย drilling specialistsย is entering a ...
onApr 17, 2019 @ 15:13 PDT

On April 10,ย first responders in Durham, North Carolina, responded to a suspected natural gas leak. While they were evacuating peopleย from the area,ย the gasย exploded,ย killing one person and injurin...
onApr 10, 2019 @ 13:27 PDT

Congressional discussionsย over climate change haveย reached such a low point thatย during this weekโ€™s House hearing on the national security risks of climate change,ย former Secretary of Stateย John Ke...
onApr 5, 2019 @ 13:18 PDT

In an attempt toย reduce the riskย of fiery oil train accidents,ย the state of Washington is working to pass a bill that would limit the vapor pressure of oil on trains to below 9 pounds per square in...
onMar 25, 2019 @ 20:27 PDT

The fossil fuel industry's faith that the modern world economy will be powered by its products for the indefinite future is usually unwavering. But cracks in that faith recently appearedย in Houston...
onMar 18, 2019 @ 11:42 PDT

Norwayโ€™sย sovereign wealth fund โ€” a state-owned investment fund worth approximately a trillion dollars โ€” recently announced it was divesting from oil and gas exploration companies around the world. ...
onMar 14, 2019 @ 14:55 PDT

Last year, Canadaย exported a record amount of tar sands oil to the U.S., despite low oil prices leading toย major lossesย once again for the struggling tar sands industry.ย That achievement required a...