Julie Dermansky

About

Julie Dermansky is a multimedia reporter and artist based in New Orleans. She is an affiliate scholar at Rutgers Universityโ€™s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Visit her website at www.jsdart.com.

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A broad base of advocacy groups opposed to Energy Transfer Partnersโ€™ (ETP) proposed Bayou Bridge pipeline continue to pressure officials inย Louisiana to deny the remaining permissions the companyย n...
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Early morning skies Wednesday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were alight from a fire that started around 2:30 a.m. at an ExxonMobilย refinery. The blaze,ย though contained before theย sun came up, is a re...
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While victims in Texas, Florida, and Puertoย Rico are still reeling from the devastation of three hurricanes worsened by a warming climate, the Trump administration and GOP senators in the Gulf cont...
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Tami Thomas-Pinkneyโ€™sย houseย in Port Arthur, Texas, was not damaged when Hurricane Harvey soaked the city with up to 28 inches of rain on August 29. Butย now, a month and a halfย after the storm, she ...
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When Harveyโ€™s rain, for the most part, stopped falling on August 30, I started making my way from Louisiana to Texas to document the pollution inevitably left in the stormโ€™s path. That day I got as...
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Hurricane Harvey's floodwaters were still receding from Port Arthur, Texas, on September 4, when Hilton Kelley and his wife Marie returned to their home and business for the first time sinceย evacua...
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As the remnants of Hurricane Harvey (now a tropical storm) continue to flood Houston โ€” just daysย before the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina โ€” I visitedย Shannon Rainey, whose house was built o...
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โ€œIt was eerie to watch images of New Orleansโ€™ flooding almost a year after the Baton Rouge flood,โ€ Tam Williams, a videographer who lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, told me. Every time it rains, sh...
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If you drive along one of the main streets in Louisianaโ€™s St. John the Baptist Parish, you may encounter a large signย warning about chloroprene in the air.ย These signs let people know that chemical...
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Jackie Dill, 64, a renowned Oklahoman wildcrafter of Cherokee descent and environmental activist who spoke out against the governmentโ€™s failure to hold the fracking industry responsible for Oklahom...