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.
Funding Shortfalls Hamper North Carolina’s Program to Buy Out Hog Farms in or Near Floodplains
By Lisa Sorg
Supreme Court Backs a Controversial Railroad in Utah for Carrying Oil
By Lisa Sorg
A Transco Pipeline Plan to Boost Gas in Five States Would Sharply Increase Air Pollution in N.C. Towns
By Lisa Sorg
States, Environmentalists Sue Trump Over Billions in Funding Freezes for EV Charging
By Lisa Sorg
NC Fires a Disaster Relief Subcontractor Founded by Former ReBuild NC Boss
By Lisa Sorg
Despite Problems in and out of State, Horne LLP Is Again Chosen by N.C. Officials to Run Disaster Relief Efforts
By Lisa Sorg
Inspired N.C. Republicans Target Environmental Justice, Clean Energy Jobs and Programs
By Lisa Sorg
An Insurance Crisis Compounded by Climate Change Threatens the Broader U.S. Economy
By Lisa Sorg
N.C. Treasurer Names Conservative Climate Skeptic to State Utilities Commission
By Lisa Sorg
N.C. Farm Bureau Asks State Supreme Court to Strike Environmental Protections From Hog Farm Permits
By Lisa Sorg
EPA Weighs N.C. Environmental Harms From Sewage Sludge Used as Fertilizer
By Lisa Sorg
Is FERC’s Future at Stake in its Titanic Clash with American Efficient?
By Lisa Sorg
A New Bill Would Allow Duke Energy to Retreat From North Carolina’s Ambitious Climate Goals
By Lisa Sorg
Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda
By Liza Gross, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg
Does N.C. Need Another Polluting Plant to Turn Plastic Waste Into Diesel Fuel?
By Lisa Sorg
Trump Wants the Federal Government’s Facilities Administration to Disconnect Its EV Charging Stations
By Lisa Sorg