Aired on Dec 1, 2025

• Microplastics, Data Centers, E. coli

This visit with Lisa Sorg includes conversations about her investigations and articles on water, ground, and air pollution; policies that don’t protect the people, and government that is ineffective at best, and on the side of polluters at worst. As the EPA is gutted, climate change continues, regulations controlling PFAs and PFOAs are weakened, Lisa forges forwarded to report on local examples of environmental racism and environmental (in)justice affecting housing projects, schools, and various municipalities. Listen in and meet our guest:

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.

“On The Porch” is hosted by Randolph ”Randy” Voller. He is also the publisher of Chatham County Line. Randy welcomes guests to the show who are from the communities of art, academia, business, and politics for friendly and informative conversations. “On The Porch” airs every Sunday at 11:06 AM, and is repeated at 5:06 PM and 8:06 PM on WCHL-FM 97.9. The show also streams on ChapelBoro.com
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