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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/Environmental Groups Sue Trump Admin to Stop LNG Trains
ByJustin Mikulka
onAug 19, 2020 @ 13:59 PDT

Nonprofit environmental law firm Earthjustice has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of environmental groups against the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), c...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
The Bakken Boom Goes Bust With No Money to Clean up the Mess
ByJustin Mikulka
onAug 8, 2020 @ 09:00 PDT

More than a decade ago, fracking took off in the Bakken shale of North Dakota and Montana, but the oil rush that followed has resulted in major environmental damage, risky oil transportation ...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
us/Racism and Discrimination in the Oil and Gas Industry
ByJustin Mikulka
onAug 2, 2020 @ 07:58 PDT

With the recent focus on systemic racism in America, the oil and gas industry isย depicting itself as leading on the issue of diversity in the workforce. However, its public relations efforts and sl...
Analysis
us/Trumpโ€™s Golden Era of Energy Is Turning to Lead
ByJustin Mikulka
onJul 25, 2020 @ 04:00 PDT

It was just over a year ago that President Trump announced,ย โ€œThe golden era of American energy is now underway,โ€ saying that his policies focused on exploiting oil, gas, and coal were โ€œunleashing e...
Bankers and Investors Finding Fracking Industry's Underlying Models Prove Overly Optimistic
ByJustin Mikulka
onJul 17, 2020 @ 10:24 PDT

Warren Buffet has aย famous quoteย about investing: โ€œOnly when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimmingย naked.โ€ When it comes to his $10 billion investmentย in Occidental Petroleum, Buff...
Series: Finances of Fracking: Shale Industry Drills More Debt Than Profit
Series: Fracking Finances
Analysis
us/Return of the Bomb Trains
ByJustin Mikulka
onJul 12, 2020 @ 07:58 PDT

On July 6,ย Reuters published an article on the potential for a resurgence of moving crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota across the country by rail, due to a judgeโ€™s decision to shut do...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Carbon Capture Will Require Large Public Subsidies to Support Coal and Gas Power
ByJustin Mikulka
onJun 15, 2020 @ 18:05 PDT

In April, the Center for Global Energy Policy (CGEP) at Columbia University released a report concludingย that, without major new subsidies from the American public, technologies for capturingย heat-...
us/Safety Can't Be a 'Pretext' for Regulating Unsafe Oil Trains, Says Trump Admin
ByJustin Mikulka
onMay 20, 2020 @ 12:08 PDT

The federal agency overseeing the safe transport of hazardous materialsย released a stunning explanationย of its May 11 decision striking downย a Washington state effort to regulate trains carrying vo...
Series: Oil By Rail: Following the Bomb Trains
Series: Oil Bomb Trains
us/Failed Finances and 'the Demonization of Gas' Are Threatening the Future of US LNG
ByJustin Mikulka
onMay 14, 2020 @ 10:25 PDT

The U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG) market, once the promising golden child of the fossil fuel industry,ย has a major long-term problem. While it'sย facing financial disaster due to the current cras...
us/New Satellite Data Reveals Dangerous Methane Emissions in Permian Region
ByJustin Mikulka
onApr 25, 2020 @ 13:04 PDT

New research based on satellite data confirms that the oil and gas industry in the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico is leaking record amounts of methane. The new research published in the jou...