Julie Dermansky

About

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

onJun 5, 2019 @ 16:02 PDT

On June 3, at the end of a five-day march through stifling heat in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, activists fighting against environmental racism reached their goal of bringing attention to their area’s...
onMay 31, 2019 @ 13:45 PDT

On May 30, around 100 people took part on the first day of a planned five-day march for environmental justice in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley. Amid sweltering heat, the march kicked off in St. John the...
onMay 10, 2019 @ 19:40 PDT

Warning: This story contains images and video of dead dolphins some may find graphic. As an unprecedented amount of floodwater makes its way down the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engi...
onApr 20, 2019 @ 03:04 PDT

Albert Naquin, Chief of the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC), often loses sleep over his tribe’s fate as its historic island homeland continues to lose land at an alarmin...
onMar 28, 2019 @ 18:02 PDT

“Take a deep breath” is common advice for helping people to relax. However, that advice has the opposite effect on some citizens who live in heavily polluted Louisiana communities along the Mississ...
onMar 15, 2019 @ 15:54 PDT

With contributions from Ashley Braun and Mat Hope. On March 15 droves of students around the world walked out of school to protest politicians’ inaction on climate change, with approximately one m...
onFeb 27, 2019 @ 17:29 PST

On February 21, the New Orleans City Council unanimously voted to uphold approval of Entergy’s proposed natural gas power plant, which faces a growing number of lawsuits, and passed a resolution to...
onFeb 19, 2019 @ 14:34 PST

Updated 2/22/2019: On February 21, after over two hours of testimony mostly against Entergy’s proposed gas plant, the New Orleans City Council voted unanimously  to let the company keep its permit ...
onFeb 5, 2019 @ 14:02 PST

After DeSmog broke the news that the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC) was considering ending its partnership in a $48 million climate change resettlement project, talks h...
onJan 11, 2019 @ 15:56 PST

The announcement that the State of Louisiana had purchased land for a resettlement project spearheaded by the Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe (IDJC) reached the Tribe’s executi...