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.

onOct 15, 2013 @ 05:00 PDT

Julia Trigg Crawford is one of a handful of Texas property owners waging a fierce battle against the TransCanada Keystone XL pipeline. Her fight began in August 2011, when she turned down TransCana...
onSep 30, 2013 @ 11:25 PDT

The toxic mess left in the wake of the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster continues to negatively impact Gulf Coast ecosystems as the second phase of the BP trial begins in New Orleans.  Billions...
onSep 26, 2013 @ 16:49 PDT

The first International Women’s Earth and Climate Summit was held in Suffern, NY from September 20- 23.  Over 100 invitation-only participants came from 35 countries equally divided between the Nor...
onSep 26, 2013 @ 05:00 PDT

It took a while for the Alabama public to understand that their state is being transformed into a tar sands Mecca. Proposals for rail and pipeline transport and tar sands storage facilities were fi...
onSep 22, 2013 @ 14:47 PDT

Originally published by The Progressive.  Evan Vokes never gave any thought to whistleblowers before realizing he would need to blow a shrill blast against his former employer, TransCanada, the ...
onSep 15, 2013 @ 07:00 PDT

The La Brea Tar Pits, situated in the middle of Hancock Park in Los Angeles, are a petroleum reservoir on the southern edge of the Salt Lake Oil Field. Working oil wells are scattered throughout...
onAug 22, 2013 @ 15:02 PDT

New video filmed in Bayou Corne, Louisiana by the Assumption Parish Office of Emergency Preparedness shows the latest “slough in” at an ongoing sinkhole sucking in whole trees. The toxic sinkhole w...