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Justin Mikulka

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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.

us/Retired General: 'Our Bases and Stations on the Coast Are Going Underwater'
ByJustin Mikulka
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This past July, in a Congressional hearing on “The Status and Outlook for U.S. and North American Energy and Resource Security,” retired Marine Brigadier General Stephen A. Cheney offered a dire wa...
us/Senator Backed by Rail Companies Introduces New Bill That Would De-Regulate Rail Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
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A new bill by one of the rail industry’s favorite senators looks to change how the industry is regulated to allow “market forces to improve rail safety.” In June, Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), who hap...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Trump’s Ignorance Reveals Why Exporting Crude Oil for 'National Security' Is a Myth
ByJustin Mikulka
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During President Donald Trump’s recent visit to Poland, he got a lesson in the reality of the global oil and gas market from Polish President Andrzej Duda. In his prepared remarks, Trump addressed ...
us/“We Got Lucky” - Four Years After Lac-Megantic, Another Oil Train Accident
ByJustin Mikulka
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“We were very lucky in this instance,” Plainfield Fire Chief David Riddle said. “There was no fire, nobody got hurt by the grace of God.” As the residents of Lac-Megantic were preparing to acknowl...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Regulators Helped Oil-by-Rail Company Avoid Environmental Review, California Court Rules
ByJustin Mikulka
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This week, a court in California overturned a permit allowing the expansion of an oil-by-rail terminal near Bakersfield, California. The opinion from that court ruling reads like a case study for c...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Fossil Fuel CEOs Say They Just Want to Lift People Out of Poverty. Do You Believe Them?
ByJustin Mikulka
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In a 2013 interview about the risks and rewards of oil exploration, Charlie Rose asked then Exxon CEO (and now Secretary of State) Rex Tillerson if his philosophy was “Drill, baby, drill!”  Tiller...
us/Oil Trains Remain Industry’s Long-term Plan for Shipping to West Coast
ByJustin Mikulka
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Despite a string of recent successes by West Coast communities to block the construction of oil-by-rail facilities, the oil industry has no plans to give up using rail to move oil to the West Coast...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/New York Attorney General: Feds Must Address Bakken Bomb Trains. Feds: Maybe Later?
ByJustin Mikulka
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New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman has joined with attorneys general from California, Illinois, Maryland, Maine, and Washington in calling for limits on the volatility of crude oil tran...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Trump’s New Era of Industry Self-Regulation Begins for Oil by Rail
ByJustin Mikulka
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In case you were wondering how industry-friendly the federal government is becoming, look no futher than Representative Jeff Denham (R-CA), chair of the Congressional Subcommittee on Railroads, Pip...
us/New Book, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Details Fossil Fuel Titans Behind Climate Crisis
ByJustin Mikulka
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse is the new book by environmental journalist Dick Russell that details the people and institutions most responsible for today’s climate and environmental crisis. Russell f...