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Julie Dermansky

New Orleans
As seen in: The Guardian, TIME, Yahoo News, The Atlantic, Slate, The Daily Beast, The Weather Channel, Vanity Fair, Mother Jones, Travel + Leisure and
Covers:  disasters, social justice, natural history, breaking news, natural disasters, climate change, fossil fuel industry, new orleans, american politics, protests, culture, nature, occupy movement
Doesn't Cover: foreign affairs, economics
Multi-media reporter /photojournalist documenting climate change & social justice. Regular contributor to DeSmog

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Julie Dermansky’s Biography

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I'm a multimedia journalist. My work focuses on industry related to climate change, climate change and social justice. I also cover breaking news and quirky topics from off beat New Orleans spots, to all things related to natural history. I contribute to DeSmogBlog, Truthout, The Progressive and the Atlantic among others. I'm based in New Orleans but go where ever a story takes me.

My photos appear in The Guardian, Washington Post, Daily Beast and the Times of London to name a few. Video is of…

Julie Dermansky’s Journalist Portfolio

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Imperiled Migratory Birds in Path of Galveston Oil Spill on Anniversary of Exxon Valdez Disaster

Imperiled Migratory Birds in Path of Galveston Oil Spill on Anniversary of Exxon Valdez Disaster

Heavy fuel oil that spilled from a Kirby Inland Marine oil barge after it collided with a cargo ship on March…

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Whistleblower Evan Voke's Evidence Against TransCanada Whitewashed By Regulators

Whistleblower Evan Voke's Evidence Against TransCanada Whitewashed By Regulators

Pipeline safety regulators in North America have done nothing but write warning letters to TransCanada in the…

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Denton, Texas Citizens Group Fights For Fracking Ban

Denton, Texas Citizens Group Fights For Fracking Ban

Maile Bush's three-bedroom home is sandwiched between two EagleRidge Energy fracking sites in Denton, Texas. …

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Earthquakes Rattle Texas Towns in the Barnett Shale

Earthquakes Rattle Texas Towns in the Barnett Shale

Daniel Hogan thought he heard a sonic boom when a magnitude 3.6 earthquake hit Azle, Texas, last November. Hi…

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Eagle Ford Shale: Breathe at Your Own Risk

Eagle Ford Shale: Breathe at Your Own Risk

Fracking is in full swing in the Eagle Ford Shale region of southern Texas, home to the most productive oil f…

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Fracking Victim Steve Lipsky's Flaming Water is No Joke

Fracking Victim Steve Lipsky's Flaming Water is No Joke

Weatherford, Texas, homeowner Steve Lipsky has nothing to hide. He is not trying to take down Range Resources…

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New Angle for Reporting on Oil and Gas Industry - Radioactive Waste

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By Sharon Kelly, Julie Dermansky, Nick Cunningham Verified
| Global Investigative Journalism Network Verified
If you are a reporter who covers climate change, I ask you to focus for a moment on a Canadian graduate student named Eli Franklin Burton. It was he who in 1904 poured oil from a well in Petrolia, Ontario, into a “large three-litre flask supported in a water bath,” heated that with a Bunsen burner, ran the vapors recovered through a set of tubes, and discovered “a highly radioactive gas obtained from crude petroleum.” This was radon, currently America’s second leading cause of lung cancer deaths.
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Photos: 2024 Was the LNG Export Boom’s Wild Year

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By Ashley Braun Verified, Julie Dermansky
| DeSmog Verified
As the year began, the climate movement had its sights set on reining in the sprawling liquefied natural gas (LNG) export industry that’s been transforming the Gulf Coast since 2016. Author and activist Bill McKibben proclaimed “a massive win” early on. But that victory proved to be short-lived. From start to finish, the future of LNG in the United States would take a wild ride in 2024.
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EPA Found No Threat Of Air Pollution During An Oil Spill In Louisiana

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By Julie Dermansky, Sharon Kelly
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: View of Crescent Midstream oil spill in Bayou Lafourche July 27, from behind Holly Marie’s Seafood Market in Raceland LA. Julie Dermansky. Despite Sickening Fumes. Was the environmental monitoring for the Crescent Midstream oil spill as robust as regulators claim? The pungent smell of oil woke Gerald and Janet Crappel on the morning of Saturday, July 27.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

yes

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Working is what I live for.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Photoshop, quicktime, lightroom and word.