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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.

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The construction site of a natural gas pipeline. Credit: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A Pipeline Company Says It Will Protect the Environment in North Carolina. Its Record in Tennessee Says Otherwise.

By Lisa Sorg

Lowell, MA - May 12: The view down a street in Lowell, Mass., where a data center looms behind residential housing on May 12. Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Federal Regulators Tell Electric Grid Operators to Fix Their Rules on Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg, Charles Paullin

Members of the Lumberton Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and Las Amigas Incorporated march along Britt Road on April 18 in St. Pauls, N.C., against the Robeson County Landfill expansion. Credit: Morgan Casey

‘We Just Want Clean Water’: Residents Sue a North Carolina County Over Landfill Contamination

By Morgan Casey, Lisa Sorg

Downstream of Brenntag’s Durham plant, where toxic chemicals was detected in the sediment of a creek that flows through Burton Park. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

North Carolina Sues Chemical Company for Polluting a Nearby Creek

By Lisa Sorg

The Terrible Combined With the Good

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Duke Energy’s coal-fired Roxboro plant sits on the shores of Hyco Lake in Person County. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Trump Administration Doubles Down on Coal Power in North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg

A gas turbine is delivered to Duke Energy’s natural gas-fired power plant in Lincoln County, North Carolina, in 2019. Credit: Duke Energy

A New N.C. Ratepayer Bill Puts the Brakes on Data Centers, but Incentivizes Fossil Fuels

By Lisa Sorg

Muddy flood waters of the Catawba River pour over the Oxford Dam, threatening a highway bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene on Sept. 28, 2024, in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Steve Exum/Getty Images

Supreme Court’s Limitation on Wetlands Protection Will Make Flooding Worse

By Lisa Sorg

A view of a methane digester at Straus Dairy Farm in Marshall, Calif. Credit: Scott Strazzante/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

USDA Extends Pause on Loans for Controversial Digesters That Turn Manure Into Biogas

By Steven Rodas, Lisa Sorg

An aerial view of Duke University’s West Campus in Durham, N.C. Credit: Duke University

Duke University Plans a Data Center It Says Will Boost ‘Environmental Responsibility and Sustainability’

By Lisa Sorg

Sections of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline are seen at the construction site near Wauburn, Minn., on June 5, 2021. Credit: Kerem Yucel/AFP via Getty Images

A New Enbridge Pipeline Spurs Opposition in Central North Carolina

By Lisa Sorg

Duke Energy receives tax breaks for its data centers, even though it reported $4.9 billion in gross profits last year. Credit: Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP via Getty Images

Duke Energy Received Tax Breaks on Its Three N.C. Data Centers

By Lisa Sorg

The headquarters of American Efficient in Durham, N.C. Credit: Matt Ramey/The Assembly

Feds Fine Durham-Based Energy Efficiency Company $722 Million

By Lisa Sorg

A team of contractors work to install a Transco pipeline in Lebanon, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2017. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images

Transco Pipeline Project Faces Legal Challenge

By Lisa Sorg

Mist rises from the cooling towers of Google’s data center in Lenoir, N.C. Credit: Google

What Is the Economic Impact of Data Centers? It’s a Secret.

By Lisa Sorg

A tanker transporting liquefied petroleum gas is seen at a port in Mumbai, India, after passing through the Strait of Hormuz on April 1. Credit: Anadolu via Getty Images

The Global Energy Supply in a Decade ‘Is Not a World We’re Going to Recognize’

By Lisa Sorg

Craig Watts raised chicks on a factory farm for 20 years but left after he clashed with Perdue, the giant poultry company, over contract provisions and the welfare of the animals. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

Critics Call the Poultry Farming System Rigged. Craig Watts Is Fighting to Overturn It.

By Lisa Sorg

Tim and Deborah Mabe are among the plaintiffs suing Stokes County. Their land, in the family for generations, abuts the data center property. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

In N.C., Stokes County Approves a Data Center Rezoning, Triggering a Citizens’ Lawsuit

By Lisa Sorg

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