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.

onNov 21, 2019 @ 10:28 PST

New research from Stanford University professor Mark Z. Jacobson questions the climate and health benefits of carbon capture technology against simply switching to renewable energy sources like win...
onNov 14, 2019 @ 07:58 PST

A recent paper analyzing the major players in the organized efforts to attack climate change science and delay action had a surprising revelation — the biggest contributing industry/sector was not ...
onNov 5, 2019 @ 16:31 PST

After revising its three-year U.S. power forecast, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has predicted major declines for fossil fuels and nuclear power alongside strong growth in renewab...
onOct 29, 2019 @ 17:03 PDT

Today Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) led a hearing of Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, which examined “Dark Money and Barriers to Climate Action.” The testimony of the ...
onOct 29, 2019 @ 10:34 PDT

On October 23, New York Attorney General Letitia James, joined by attorneys general from Maryland, New Jersey, and California, sent a letter of support to the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials ...
onOct 25, 2019 @ 03:04 PDT

President Trump has made clear that he wants to move the nation's glut of fracked natural gas onto trains and then to ships for sale abroad. In response to Trump's April executive order pushing fe...
Analysis
onOct 18, 2019 @ 14:39 PDT

Increasingly, U.S. shale firms appear unable to pay back investors for the money borrowed to fuel the last decade of the fracking boom. In a similar vein, those companies also seem poised to stiff ...
onOct 16, 2019 @ 10:22 PDT

In 1998, the U.S.'s largest oil and gas industry lobbying group, the American Petroleum Institute (API), was involved with a communications plan whose goal was promoting “uncertainties in climate s...
Analysis
onOct 3, 2019 @ 16:43 PDT

This week, the Wall Street Journal highlighted that the U.S. oil and gas shale industry, already struggling financially, is now facing “core operational issues.” That should be a truly frightening ...
onOct 2, 2019 @ 09:21 PDT

While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country's oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sand...