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.
Transco Pipeline Project Faces Legal Challenge
By Lisa Sorg
What Is the Economic Impact of Data Centers? It’s a Secret.
By Lisa Sorg
The Global Energy Supply in a Decade ‘Is Not a World We’re Going to Recognize’
By Lisa Sorg
Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.
By Lisa Sorg
In N.C., Stokes County Approves a Data Center Rezoning, Triggering a Citizens’ Lawsuit
By Lisa Sorg
Trump’s EPA Claims Strong Enforcement. But the Data Tells a Different Story.
By Wyatt Myskow, Lisa Sorg
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
