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 Denton, Texas, a college town north of Dallas that sits atop the Barnett Shale formation, the fight over a referendum banning fracking within city limits is in the finalย stretch. The local ballo...
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Louisianaย Attorney General Buddy Caldwell got a temporary restraining orderย to stop the incinerated remains of Ebola victim Thomas Eric Duncanโ€™s belongings from being disposed of in Louisiana. Cald...
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The Department of Louisiana Natural Resources (DNR)ย has approved a unit permit for Helis Oil & Gas Company for a site in St. Tammany Parish that the company plans toย frack.ย  The departmentโ€™s decisi...
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The scars of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans that remain nine years later are a reminder of the cityโ€™s vulnerability to rising tides and storm surges. Bothย Katrina and Rita, a hurricane that follo...
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Millions of people living near refineries will be directly affected by a long awaited updates to regulations the Environmental Protection Agencyย hasย proposed forย oil refineries. Their new proposed ...
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The failure of the Denton city council to pass a fracking ban in Denton, Texas, after a meeting that went on for over eight hours last night, was no surpriseย toย Cathy McMullen, Denton resident and ...
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On Friday morning, Dan A. Hughes Oil Companyย and the Collier Resources Companyย agreed to terminate their lease agreement, with the exception of the Collier Hogan 20-3H well, next to the Corkscrew S...
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Shannon Rainey lives in a houseย that wasย built on top of a Superfund site in theย Upperย Ninthย Ward of Newย Orleans. โ€œI bought my house when I was 25, and thirty years later, I still can't get out,โ€ย s...
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TransCanada shut down the southern leg of the Keystone XL (now called the Gulf Coast Pipeline Project) on June 2ย for โ€œroutine work,โ€ according to Reuters.ย ย  โ€œPipelines aren't normally shut down for...
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The Keystone XL pipeline's southern route passes under Eleanor Fairchild's Texas property, so she got angry when she learned that the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) ...