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North Carolina’s Climate Activists Brace for Trump’s Return

After battling the state’s massive fossil fuel buildout throughout 2024, they worry about what the incoming president’s unbridled support for oil and gas will mean for North Carolina. But a new governor and state attorney general, both progressive Democrats, could help push for renewables.

By Lisa Sorg

 Sherri White-Williamson of Clinton, in Sampson County, co-founded EJCAN, which advocates for environmental justice in low-income neighborhoods and communities of color where pollution sources are clustered. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News
Bobby Jones stands in front of Duke Energy's STAR facility in Goldsboro, N.C. Jones co-founded the Down East Coal Ash Environmental and Social Justice Coalition, which advocates for people in eastern North Carolina burdened by pollution. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

As the Clock Ticks to Act on the Climate Crisis, N.C. Activists Target a ‘Carbon Plan’

By Lisa Sorg
Shelley Robbins, the senior decarbonization manager for the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, stands next to the Dan River in Rockingham County. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Pipeline Runs Through It

By Lisa Sorg
From left: Lisa Schehr, Mae Brouhard, Chloe Schehr, Nikki Wagg and Dawn Overmyer are beekeepers on a 12-acre family farm near Midway, N.C. Their family land, including the beekeeping farm, is in the path of the Transco pipeline expansion. Credit: Lisa Sorg/Inside Climate News

A Family of Beekeepers Could Lose Their Hives Because of a Massive Pipeline Expansion

By Lisa Sorg
Andrea Childers stands in the creek on her property, which sits next to the Moriah Energy Center site in southeastern Person County.

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

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