Reporter Lisa Sorg discusses her new special series on Robeson County’s environmental plight

As NC Newsline investigative reporter Lisa Sorg has been detailing in a new series of special reports, the county of 100,000-plus residents – most of whom are poor and/or people of color – is literally inundated with mind-boggling quantities of toxic chemicals and animal waste. What’s more, as we learned in a conversation with Lisa earlier this week, even when local residents fight back in an effort to stop the siting of new pollution sources, state environmental regulators have been doing precious little to help. Read Sorg’s full series of stories here. The post Reporter Lisa Sorg discusses her new special series on Robeson County’s environmental plight appeared first on NC Newsline.