Lisa Sorg

Is the FBI Investigating Environmental Activists? - Inside Climate News A recent visit by an FBI agent to a climate activist hints at a broadening Trump administration effort to target political opponents.

The FBI visited a climate activist’s home. Is it part of a broader investigation to label environmental advocacy as domestic terrorism?

Realizing I had been confessing my sins to a pedophile

North Carolina Created Complaint Systems for Its Industrialized Farms. They Don’t Work Very Well. - Inside Climate News Complaints become part of the record only if a violation is found, but the state has only 14 inspectors for thousands of hog, poultry and cattle farms known as concentrated animal feeding operations, ...

A chocolate-colored ridge ... rested in a field and close to the road. A cold downpour had turned the air clammy. It smelled like a rancid potpourri seeping through the truck windows, singeing the occupants’ sinuses and glomming onto their raincoats.
insideclimatenews.org/news/0903202...

Park Service Warns of Quicksand at a Recreation Area in Arizona and Utah

My childhood fears of quicksand were not in vain
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

EPA Hits 40-Year Lows in Staffing After Trump Targets Its Public Health Experts - Inside Climate News An Inside Climate News analysis of just-released federal workforce data shows more than 4,000 employees departed between January 2025 and January 2026, including a majority of team leaders.

New federal workforce figures show the radical change at EPA in the first year of the Trump administration Among the 4,000 employees who departed in 2025 were scientists responsible for breakthroughs in testing for health risks of biopersistent chemicals.

Durham city official says they told NCDEQ about odor complaints from Brenntag but have no idea what came of it.
Also the fecal bacteria in the stream is likely from McDougald Terrace, where “the entire infrastructure is crumbling” underground including old leaking sewer pipes

Former DJ here, can confirm this is annoying, as well as the 45rpm 12” that is not clearly labeled

And don't know that when they say "resistance is futile," honorable journalists will double down. BTW, similar tactics to spam emails, create fear and a sense of urgency. I call BS

If it's wrong, I don't wanna be right

A Global Chemical Giant Racks Up Violations in Durham, N.C., Where Drinking Water for a Million Is Threatened - Inside Climate News Acetone, ethanol, 1,4-dioxane and methylene chloride were among contaminants found in a stream near Brenntag Mid-South’s chemical repackaging facility.

More leaking barrels of chemicals, more toxics entering a stream behind Burton Elementary School. My latest on the Brenntag saga: insideclimatenews.org/news/0403202...

Why Electricity Bills Are So High—and How the Blowback Could Hit Trump - Inside Climate News As Democrats and climate activists seize on energy costs as a political issue, new data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025. The figures were much higher in some states.

Chances are your electricity bills are way up. Here’s a look at how a typical bill has changed in each state during Trump’s first full year in office.

Cheniere Energy Received $370 Million IRS Windfall for Using LNG as ‘Alternative’ Fuel - Inside Climate News The country’s largest exporter of liquefied natural gas benefited from what critics say is a questionable IRS interpretation of tax credits.

The IRS gave the largest U.S. LNG producer and exporter a $370 million refund for ‘alternative fuel’ tax credits that critics say it never should have received.

I know I shouldn’t engage w these texts but I always respond, “F**k off”

The panic attacks I’ve been intermittently experiencing over the past 24 hours? I’d say they are a normal response to the state of the world

My neighbor and friend died of cervical cancer. I was her main caregiver bc she didn’t have family around. It’s a horrible way to die.

When will Barron Trump enlist in the Marines and lay down his life for his country?
I'll wait.

Southern Right Whales Are Having Fewer Calves; Scientists Say a Warming Ocean Is to Blame - Inside Climate News After decades of recovery from commercial whaling, climate change is now threatening the whales’ future.

“Their future is now in doubt.” Decades of commercial whaling once drove whales to the point of near-extinction in the 19th and 20th century—now, climate change is threatening the future of the population.

North Carolina Regulators Nix $1.2 Billion Federal Proposal to Dredge Wilmington Harbor - Inside Climate News U.S. Army Corps of Engineers failed to explain how it would mitigate environmental harms, including PFAS contamination.

After 3.5 yrs of opposition, the plan to dredge the Lower Cape Fear is d-e-a-d, at least for quite a while. Tons of PFAS-contaminated sand would have been excavated, placed on public beaches & bird islands, plus wetlands loss, shoreline erosion, the list goes on insideclimatenews.org/news/2502202...

cosplaying as a homeless person, geez-us

I consider myself a pacifist, but some people need punched in the face

I spent the afternoon interviewing a woman who fostered 60 children over the years, is now an enviro advocate, names all her chickens and a snapping turtle who lives by the pond, has a chick cemetery w flowers and a small angel statuary.
There are still kind people in the world.

Loosely Regulated Commercial Space Travel Poses An Environmental Threat A new study underscores growing unease about pollution from mostly unregulated commercial space activities.

A Falcon rocket crashing through the atmosphere left a massive metal pollution plume detected from Earth. Researchers say such contamination is rising rapidly as launch activity surges, and they warn that the atmosphere and climate could be harmed.

Climate Change Could Make This Horrific New Jersey Wildlife Disease Worse - Inside Climate News The Garden State is home to ranavirus, a pathogen capable of killing amphibians en masse. Scientists still aren’t sure what’s causing outbreaks and what the long-term effects might be, and rising temp...

15 years after a pathogen capable of killing amphibians en masse was first found in New Jersey, scientists are still unable to determine the cause of the ranavirus outbreaks and what the long-term consequences may be. But rising temperatures could be exacerbating the problem.

a satirical onion headline w a photo of rfk jr

The Kurse of Kudzu

California Pays Farms to Make Biogas from Hog Waste in North Carolina, Where Locals Say It’s Fueling Pollution - Inside Climate News Last year, six hog farms in the state were the first to get funding from California’s program to offset its emissions from transportation fuels. The operations’ permits already have civil rights compl...

To offset transportation emissions, California is paying hog farms in North Carolina to turn manure into renewable gas. Although six NC farms are selling carbon credits to the other side of the country, the operations’ permits already have civil rights complaints against them.

Inject this straight into my veins. Great article, @dennispillion.bsky.social

N.C. Judge Upholds the State’s Limits on 1,4-Dioxane Pollution in Utilities’ Wastewater - Inside Climate News The chemical, used in solvents, degreasers and some consumer products, is a likely carcinogen that can harm the liver and kidneys.

“Compliance with regulations and a desire to maintain or improve public health cannot be said to be a bad faith decision."
Wake judge rules vs Asheboro, says NCDEQ can limit amount of 1,4-dioxane-a likely carcinogen-- city discharges into drinking water supply.
insideclimatenews.org/news/1102202...

Chatham County just passed a temporary moratorium --up to a year-- on data centers/crypto mining

Yes, my dad also took one and well, let’s just say he would do better with a digital clock