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.
Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge
By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna
To Reduce its Carbon Footprint, UNC Could Burn Pellets Composed of Paper and Plastic
By Lisa Sorg
North Carolina’s Climate Activists Brace for Trump’s Return
By Lisa Sorg
As the Clock Ticks to Act on the Climate Crisis, N.C. Activists Target a ‘Carbon Plan’
By Lisa Sorg
ReBuild NC’s Embattled Director Is No Longer a State Employee, a Memo Confirms
By Lisa Sorg
Lawmakers Grill ReBuild NC’s Director Over Performance Lapses and Budget Shortfalls
By Lisa Sorg
A Pipeline Runs Through It
By Lisa Sorg
Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate
By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow
ReBuild NC Has a Deficit of Over $150 Million With 1,600 People Still Displaced by Hurricanes Matthew and Florence
By Lisa Sorg
N.C. Health Officials Issue Guidelines for Thousands of Potentially Flooded Private Wells
By Lisa Sorg
A Family of Beekeepers Could Lose Their Hives Because of a Massive Pipeline Expansion
By Lisa Sorg
As the Planet Warms, Activists in North Carolina Mobilize to Stop a Gathering Storm
Story by Lisa Sorg, Inside Climate News and photos by Julia Wall, The Assembly
Nonprofit Law Center Asks EPA to Take Over Water Permitting in N.C.
By Lisa Sorg
Debby Drenched the Southeast. Climate Change Is Making Storms Like This Even Wetter
By Amy Green, Lisa Sorg
North Carolina Environmental Regulators at War Over Water Rules for ‘Forever Chemicals’
By Lisa Sorg
North Carolina’s Iconic College Town Struggles to Redevelop a Toxic Coal Ash Mound
By Lisa Sorg
