Julie Dermansky

1 month ago | gijn.org | Sharon Kelly |Julie Dermansky |Nick Cunningham

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.

Dec 27, 2024 | desmog.com | Ashley Braun |Julie Dermansky

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.

Sep 28, 2024 | popularresistance.org | Julie Dermansky |Sharon Kelly

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.

Sep 25, 2024 | desmog.com | Julie Dermansky |Sharon Kelly

The pungent smell of oil woke Gerald and Janet Crappel on the morning of Saturday, July 27. Stepping outside their home on the banks of Bayou Lafourche in Raceland, Louisiana, they spotted the fumes’ source: crude oil from Crescent Midstream’s Raceland pump station was gushing into the picturesque waterway, sparsely lined with homes and fishing boats, via a stormwater canal directly across from their home. The oil’s fumes were thick that morning.

Jul 19, 2024 | desmog.com | Sharon Kelly |Julie Dermansky

Environmental groups are teeing up a legal challenge to new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules on pollution from chemical and plastics plants, citing concerns the EPA relied too heavily on lowball industry estimates as it sized up the risks to people’s health posed by ethylene oxide (EtO), chloroprene, and other toxic air pollution.