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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.

2020 Gulf Coast Hurricane Season in Photos: From the Front Lines of Climate Change
ByJulie Dermansky
onDec 23, 2020 @ 03:00 PST

The 2020 Atlantic hurricane season had a record-breaking 30 named storms, so many that the National Hurricane Center ran through the standard list of names and moved on to the Greek alphabet with o...
us/Cancer Alley Community Leaders Are Cautious As Biden Picks Their Fossil Fuel-Friendly Congressman for White House Role
ByJulie Dermansky
onNov 24, 2020 @ 20:10 PST

Community leaders long at odds with the powerful petrochemical industry in Louisiana took note when their Congressional representative, Cedric Richmond, announced November 12 that he was taking a n...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Anti-pollution Advocates Cheer as Army Corps Reviews Formosa Plastics Permit in Louisiana
ByJulie Dermansky
onNov 5, 2020 @ 16:06 PST

Environmental and community groups in Louisiana are elated after what they see as two back-to-back wins in their fight to protect fenceline communities from additional petrochemical industry pollut...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/Hurricane Zeta Leaves Thousands Without Power, Oily Mess On Heels of Laura and Delta in South Louisiana
ByJulie Dermansky
onOct 31, 2020 @ 11:34 PDT

“I will evacuate next time a hurricane is forecast to hit the area,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe told me the day aft...
us/Hurricane Delta Compounds Oil Pollution Left By Hurricane Laura in Louisiana’s Wetlands
ByJulie Dermansky
onOct 16, 2020 @ 13:18 PDT

Hurricane Delta made landfall in Creole, Louisiana, on October 9 — 13 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck 43 days before. It touched down in an area packed with oil and gas wells, pipelines,...
us/Hurricane Laura’s Aftermath: Miles of Oil Sheen in Louisiana’s Wetlands
ByJulie Dermansky
onSep 9, 2020 @ 13:14 PDT

Almost a week after Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana's coast, which is studded with oil and gas industry pipes, tanks, wells, and rigs, I photographed from the sky oil sheen along at least 20 miles...
us/Pollution Scientist Calls Plastic Pellet Spill in the Mississippi River 'a Nurdle Apocalypse'
ByJulie Dermansky
onAug 28, 2020 @ 11:05 PDT

Three weeks after a shipping container full of tiny plastic pellets fell into the Mississippi River near New Orleans, cleanup hired by the vessel that lost its cargo stopped shortly after it starte...
us/A Plastics Spill on the Mississippi River But No Accountability in Sight
ByJulie Dermansky
onAug 11, 2020 @ 16:27 PDT

When I arrived on Sunday, August 9, scores of tiny plastic pellets lined the sandy bank of the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans, Louisiana, where they glistened in the sun, not far fro...
us/Disaster Recovery Expert Russel Honoré Decries the Lack of Coordinated Response to COVID-19
ByJulie Dermansky
onJul 17, 2020 @ 17:40 PDT

Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cance...
Series: Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Communities at Risk
Series: Louisiana's Cancer Alley
us/As Pandemic Toll Rises, Science Deniers in Louisiana Shun Masks, Comparing Health Measures to Nazi Germany
ByJulie Dermansky
onJul 10, 2020 @ 16:47 PDT

Science denial in America didn’t begin with the Trump administration, but under the leadership of President Trump, it has blossomed. From the climate crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic, this rejection...

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