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.

onDec 28, 2018 @ 18:25 PST

On December 27,ย a state* appeals court ordered a Louisianaโ€™s sheriffโ€™s department and its sheriff to release information about its officersโ€™ trip to North Dakota during the heated protests against ...
onDec 21, 2018 @ 14:49 PST

Louisiana is ground zero for the devastating impacts of climate change. Even though the state is already feeling the costly impacts to life and property due to extreme weather and an eroding coastl...
onDec 16, 2018 @ 15:41 PST

With the resignation of Interior Secretaryย Ryan Zinke, environmental and public lands advocatesย are asking: Willย the new leader be any better for the environment than the previous one? And from the...
onDec 13, 2018 @ 12:43 PST

โ€œYou donโ€™t give a shit about brown and black people,โ€ Louisiana activist Cherri Foytlin told government officials during a heated public permit hearing for a proposed plastics plant in St. James Pa...
onDec 7, 2018 @ 14:44 PST

After three landowners filed a legal challenge against Bayou Bridge Pipeline, LLCโ€™s right to build a pipeline on their land โ€” which it did without their permission โ€” the case concluded this week wi...
onNov 23, 2018 @ 15:53 PST

Sue and James Franklin run a rock andย mineral shop in Balmorhea, Texas, a small picturesque town known for hosting the worldโ€™s largest spring-fedย swimming pool. Theirย shop isย about 15 miles from th...
onNov 14, 2018 @ 16:26 PST

There is an LED sign at a Chase Bank in downtown Midland, Texas, the heart of the Permian Basin, which quantifies the current oil boom. It alternates between current rig count, the price of oil, an...
onOct 21, 2018 @ 03:09 PDT

In Mexico Beach, Florida, Russell Kingโ€™s house is the only beachfront property that survived Hurricane Michael with little damage. But the fact it survived the latest record-breaking hurricane does...
onOct 11, 2018 @ 12:39 PDT

High water in Louisianaโ€™s Atchafalaya Basin and direct actions against theย Bayou Bridge pipeline threaten to further delay work on the pipeline. However, it likely will be finished before the compa...
onOct 1, 2018 @ 15:39 PDT

South Carolina was spared the worst of Hurricane Florenceโ€™s furyย when theย stormย made landfall in North Carolina on September 14, but did not escape its catastrophic impacts. Nearly two weeks later,...