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Moriah Energy Center

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
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

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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