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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For the fifth week since the blowout began, a large flare is still burning**update below**ย at the site of GEPย Haynesville,ย LLCโ€™s blown out fracked gas wells in northwestern Louisiana. The blowout o...
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On Monday, the United Nations Climate Action Summit opened with a glossy video projected around the room. It hawked a hopeful message that climate catastrophe can be averted. With the lights turned...
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This story is part ofย Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of theย climateย story.ย ย  Greta Thunberg,ย the 16-year-oldย Swedish climate acti...
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A fracked natural gas well in northwest Louisiana has been burning for two weeks after suffering a blowout. A stateย officialย said the fire will likely burn for the next month before the flames can ...
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Chinese giant Wanhua Chemical officially withdrew its plans to build a $1.25 billion plastics manufacturing complex in St. James, Louisiana, in the heart of the already industrialized Cancer Alley....
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On August 7, after Geraldine Mayhoโ€™s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks. The tanks ar...
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โ€œLook at what is coming into the Parish, instead of saying โ€˜Yeah, yeah, yeahโ€™โ€”it is time to say โ€˜No,โ€™โ€ Pastor Harry Joseph told the St. James Parish Council on July 24. He implored councilmembers t...
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While most of Louisiana was spared Barryโ€™s wrath last week, Isle de Jean Charles, a quickly eroding strip of land among coastal wetlands in the Gulf of Mexico, was not. A storm surge swept over the...
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Yesterday, I stopped writing another story for DeSmog to get ready for what could likely become this yearโ€™s first hurricane in theย U.S.ย  I live in Mandeville, Louisiana, on the north shore of Lake...
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Last month, four residents from Louisiana neighborhoods impacted by air pollution traveled far from their Mississippi River parishes to Washington, D.C., and Tokyo, Japan, seeking help in their str...