Lisa Sorg
Reporter, North Carolina
Lisa Sorg is the North Carolina reporter for Inside Climate News. A journalist for 30 years, Sorg covers energy, climate environment and agriculture, as well as the social justice impacts of pollution and corporate malfeasance.
She has won dozens of awards for her news, public service and investigative reporting. In 2022, she received the Stokes Award from the National Press Foundation for her two-part story about the environmental damage from a former missile plant on a Black and Latinx neighborhood in Burlington. Sorg was previously an environmental investigative reporter at NC Newsline, a nonprofit media outlet based in Raleigh. She has also worked at alt-weeklies, dailies and magazines. Originally from rural Indiana, she lives in Durham, N.C.
North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well.
By Lisa Sorg
A Global Chemical Giant Racks Up Violations in Durham, N.C., Where Drinking Water for a Million Is Threatened
By Lisa Sorg
North Carolina Regulators Nix $1.2 Billion Federal Proposal to Dredge Wilmington Harbor
By Lisa Sorg
Senate Democrats Say Trump’s EPA Curries Corporate Favor By Weakening Air Pollution Standards
By Lisa Sorg
N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater
By Lisa Sorg
A Troubled Hog Farm in Wayne County, North Carolina, Is Hit With a New String of Violations
By Lisa Sorg
A Winter Storm Fueled by Global Warming Tests U.S. Disaster Response
By Kiley Bense, Bob Berwyn, Keerti Gopal, Lee Hedgepeth, Lisa Sorg
Trump’s Grant Terminations Upheld by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
By Lisa Sorg
Duke Energy Plans to Build a Massive Natural Gas Power Plant in Davidson County. But Where, Exactly?
By Lisa Sorg
The Army Corps of Engineers Wants to Dredge the Cape Fear River. Environmentalists Tally the Costs.
By Lisa Sorg
A New Report Describes Deep Environmental Cuts, State by State
By Lisa Sorg
Scientists Say the Forever Chemical TFA Could Cause Irreversible Harm. In Eastern North Carolina, It’s Everywhere.
By Lisa Sorg
N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants
By Lisa Sorg
N.C. Office of Recovery and Resiliency So Poorly Managed That State Auditor Couldn’t Determine Full Extent of Waste
By Lisa Sorg
N.C. Supreme Court Says State Regulators Erred on CAFO Permits
By Lisa Sorg
A Company Eyes What Would Be North Carolina’s First Commercial Natural Gas Well
By Lisa Sorg
