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.

onSep 10, 2018 @ 12:23 PDT

On September 8, ย โ€œRise for Climateโ€ eventsย took placeย in 95 countries around the world, pressing leaders to take action on climate change and other environmental issues, a week before a global summ...
onAug 16, 2018 @ 15:57 PDT

โ€œCovering stuff up doesnโ€™t make it go away,โ€ said Lilly Womble, an 18-year-old on vacation on Floridaโ€™s Sanibel Island. The island is world renowned for its seaย shells but that day we were watching...
onAug 2, 2018 @ 15:52 PDT

Florida is in the midst of a still-unfolding water pollution catastrophe. Many formerly picture-perfect beaches and posh waterfront neighborhoods are now surreal toxic landscapes where the smell is...
onJul 18, 2018 @ 13:56 PDT

What should be done about a chemical plant in Louisianaโ€™s St. John the Baptist Parish that releases chloroprene โ€” a chemical so toxic that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determined nearb...
onJul 12, 2018 @ 14:38 PDT

Sharon Lavigne andย Geraldine Mayho took me to meet some of the most vulnerable members of their community, handicapped residents of St. James, Louisiana, who live near a terminal where the Bayou Br...
onJul 9, 2018 @ 14:00 PDT

A day before a federal courtย reaffirmed Bayou Bridge LLC could keep building an oil pipeline through Louisianaโ€™s Atchafalaya Basin, I stood onย a cypress tree stump there, viewing the destroyed tree...
onJul 5, 2018 @ 11:45 PDT

Manchac, Louisiana, is located on a narrow strip of land between two brackish lakes, surrounded by cypress trees and abundant wildlife. About 43 miles northwest of New Orleans, Manchacโ€™s picturesqu...
onJul 2, 2018 @ 18:27 PDT

At a June 28 meeting, New Orleans regulators put the cityโ€™s public utility Entergy in the hot seat over increasing power outages and slow progress on clean energy goals. City councilmembers showed ...
onJun 6, 2018 @ 14:00 PDT

Melinda Tillies learned about the controversial Bayou Bridge pipeline the day its construction began next to her home a couple months ago.ย As workers prepared the site for the pipeline, the activit...
onMay 24, 2018 @ 17:44 PDT

Today, residents of St. James, Louisiana, and groups opposing the Bayou Bridge pipeline petitioned a state court to halt constructionย on the oil pipeline along its final 18 miles. This segment fall...