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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In the coming months, TransCanada will likely receive a green light to build the final legย ofย its Keystone pipeline network, which would carry Canadian tar sands to Gulf of Mexico refineries.ย Presi...
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At a permit hearing for the Bayou Bridge pipeline held January 12 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, opponents warned that if a permit is granted, the battle to stop the pipeline could turn the Atchafalaya...
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The Louisiana coast loses a football fieldโ€™s worth of land every 38 minutes. Thisย staggering rate of land loss has been brought on by climate change and coastal erosion acceleratedย by human activit...
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2016 willย likely be the warmest year on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization.ย So itโ€™s not surprising that issues related to climate change continued to dominate myย work for De...
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On November 15, over 150 people protested against the Dakota Access Pipeline in New Orleans outside the US Army Corp of Engineers headquarters in a show of solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux t...
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In the aftermath of the 1000-year flood that hit southern Louisiana in August, environmental and public health concerns are mounting as the watersย recede. Residents want to know why many areas tha...
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Eleanor Fairchild, an 82-year-old grandmother who owns a 425-acre ranch outside of Winnsboro, Texas, has advice for anyone who is asked to sign a contract by a company that wants to build a pipelin...
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During President Obamaโ€™s visit to a flood-ravaged area near Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this week, a group of environmental activists delivered a petition to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM...
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The largest flooding event in Louisianaโ€™s history โ€” and the worst natural disaster to hit the United States since Hurricane Sandy in 2012 โ€” is notย over. As I write, new areas in the southern part ...
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Eight years after a mercaptan spill at a Mobile Gas facility in Eight Mile, Alabama, residents still affected by the spill are fighting back. โ€œFor years we have been told there is not a problem any...