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.

onJun 5, 2016 @ 11:11 PDT

Luck was in abundance on Friday in Mosier, Oregon where the latest Bakken oil train derailed and erupted into flames near a 50-home residential area and aย school.ย  As Mosier Fire Chief Jim Appleto...
onMay 26, 2016 @ 03:58 PDT

โ€œWeโ€™re certainly not advocating any strategy for reducing hydrocarbon emissions by keeping oil in the groundโ€ฆthatโ€™s not aย position.โ€ย  This was the response of Christopher A. Smith when he was aske...
onMay 20, 2016 @ 10:42 PDT

โ€œI would agree with the opponents. This is not about saving jobsโ€ฆThis is about profits. But gee, what is wrong withย profits?โ€ Those were the words of San Luis Obispo County Planning Commissioner J...
onMay 20, 2016 @ 07:58 PDT

Jon Bowermasterโ€™s new film Dear President Obama is essentially an open letter to President Obama asking him to start taking climate change seriously and put an end to his โ€œall of the aboveโ€ energyย ...
onMay 9, 2016 @ 15:12 PDT

A year ago, when Federal regulators announced new rules for โ€œhigh hazardโ€ trains moving crude oil and ethanol, the oil industry protested that the rules were too strict. The main point of contentio...
onMay 6, 2016 @ 08:45 PDT

When New York state banned fracking in 2015, it was a blow to the oil and gas industry. But it didnโ€™t slow industry plans to continue to build out new oil and gas infrastructure in New York. How...
onApr 12, 2016 @ 13:59 PDT

As Bernie Sanders attempts an upset in New Yorkโ€™s April 19th primary, he has begun to increase his focus on the issues of fracking and climate change. And since the state of New York banned fra...
onApr 8, 2016 @ 04:58 PDT

After learning that Exxon misled the world about its advanced understanding of climate change science for decades, it shouldnโ€™t be too surprising to learn that the company is being less than truthf...
onApr 4, 2016 @ 16:04 PDT

A new study from Stanford has confirmed that fracking operations are contaminating drinking water sources in Wyoming. โ€œThis is a wake-up call,โ€ said lead author Dominic DiGiulio, a visiting scho...
onApr 3, 2016 @ 03:58 PDT

It isnโ€™t hard to find news these days about how the crash in oil prices is impacting investment in new oil infrastructure and development. Headlines like โ€œBig oil to cut investment again in 2016โ€ a...