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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Pastor Harry Joseph of the Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, Louisiana, is taking legal action to prevent the Bayou Bridge pipeline from being built in his community, roughly 50 miles west...
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A group of residents in St. Gabriel, a suburb of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is no stranger to industrial pollution. The small town is on the banks of the Mississippi River in a stretch of land between...
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On Trumpโ€™s 100thย day in office, over 200,000 peopleย joined the People's Climate Marchย in Washington, D.C.,ย asย tens of thousandsย marchedย in cities around the world. While the mood in D.C. was festiv...
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On Earth Day, tens of thousands turned out for the March for Science in Washington, D.C., despite the rain, celebrating ideas, facts, and empirical data whileย chastisingย climate scienceย deniers. C...
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It doesnโ€™t take carefully calibrated measurements to realize there is something wrong with theย air around the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St. John the Baptist Parish,ย Louisiana.ย  From a s...
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On March 30, heavy rain didnโ€™t stop dozens of people in Newย Orleans from marching to the offices of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR), where they delivered a letter to the agency ...
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For years the discolored water delivered to the northern Louisiana delta town ofย St.ย Joseph resembled what one would expect to find in a third-world country.ย But it wasnโ€™t untilย high levels of lead...
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Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy's constituents packed emotionally charged town hall meetings across the state during Congressโ€™ February break, a trend seen in other meetings with lawmakers around th...
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On February 13 environmental advocates urged Louisiana agencies to deny permits for theย Bayou Bridge pipeline at aย press conference in front of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) office ...
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The day after Trumpโ€™s inauguration, dozens of female scientists decked out in white lab coats met in front of the National Air and Space Museum for the Womenโ€™s March in Washington,ย D.C. They were c...