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Julie Dermansky

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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.

us/Pastor Leads Lawsuit Opposing Bayou Bridge Pipeline to Protect Louisiana Cancer Alley Community
ByJulie Dermansky
onJun 26, 2017 @ 18:16 PDT

Pastor Harry Joseph of the Mount Triumph Baptist Church in St. James, Louisiana, is taking legal action to prevent the Bayou Bridge pipeline from being built in his community, roughly 50 miles west...
Series: Conflict in Cajun Country: Will the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Become Louisiana's Standing Rock?
Series: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Battle
us/Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Push Back Against Industrial Polluters
ByJulie Dermansky
onMay 28, 2017 @ 06:01 PDT

A group of residents in St. Gabriel, a suburb of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is no stranger to industrial pollution. The small town is on the banks of the Mississippi River in a stretch of land between...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/People’s Climate Movement Shows Strength and Diversity at DC March
ByJulie Dermansky
onApr 30, 2017 @ 15:27 PDT

On Trump’s 100th day in office, over 200,000 people joined the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C., as tens of thousands marched in cities around the world. While the mood in D.C. was festiv...
us/March for Science Organizer: 'Titans' Like Einstein, Galileo, Carson Engaged With Politics
ByJulie Dermansky
onApr 23, 2017 @ 18:48 PDT

On Earth Day, tens of thousands turned out for the March for Science in Washington, D.C., despite the rain, celebrating ideas, facts, and empirical data while chastising climate science deniers. C...
us/One Community’s Fight for Clean Air in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley
ByJulie Dermansky
onApr 19, 2017 @ 14:08 PDT

It doesn’t take carefully calibrated measurements to realize there is something wrong with the air around the Denka Performance Elastomer plant in St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana.  From a s...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Breaking: Louisiana’s Bayou Bridge Pipeline Is One Permit Closer To Reality As Groups Plan Continued Resistance
ByJulie Dermansky
onApr 3, 2017 @ 20:19 PDT

On March 30, heavy rain didn’t stop dozens of people in New Orleans from marching to the offices of the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources (DNR), where they delivered a letter to the agency ...
Series: Conflict in Cajun Country: Will the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Become Louisiana's Standing Rock?
Series: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Battle
us/While One Louisiana Town's Lead-Tainted Water System Is Replaced, Dozens of Others Deteriorate
ByJulie Dermansky
onMar 18, 2017 @ 04:57 PDT

For years the discolored water delivered to the northern Louisiana delta town of St. Joseph resembled what one would expect to find in a third-world country. But it wasn’t until high levels of lead...
us/Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy Pushes Natural Gas as Climate Solution at Contentious Town Hall Meetings
ByJulie Dermansky
onFeb 24, 2017 @ 04:58 PST

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy's constituents packed emotionally charged town hall meetings across the state during Congress’ February break, a trend seen in other meetings with lawmakers around th...
us/Clash Over the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Ratchets up After Louisiana Pipeline Explosion
ByJulie Dermansky
onFeb 14, 2017 @ 13:31 PST

On February 13 environmental advocates urged Louisiana agencies to deny permits for the Bayou Bridge pipeline at a press conference in front of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) office ...
Series: Conflict in Cajun Country: Will the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Become Louisiana's Standing Rock?
Series: Bayou Bridge Pipeline Battle
us/As Trump Takes Office, Women Scientists and Environmental Activists Fight Back Against Climate Change Deniers in D.C.
ByJulie Dermansky
onJan 23, 2017 @ 14:21 PST

The day after Trump’s inauguration, dozens of female scientists decked out in white lab coats met in front of the National Air and Space Museum for the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. They were c...

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