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Liza Gross

Liza Gross

Reporter, California

Liza Gross is a reporter for Inside Climate News based in Northern California. She is the author of The Science Writers’ Investigative Reporting Handbook and a contributor to The Science Writers’ Handbook, both funded by National Association of Science Writers’ Peggy Girshman Idea Grants. She has long covered science, conservation, agriculture, public and environmental health and justice with a focus on the misuse of science for private gain. Prior to joining ICN, she worked as a part-time magazine editor for the open-access journal PLOS Biology, a reporter for the Food & Environment Reporting Network and produced freelance stories for numerous national outlets, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Discover and Mother Jones. Her work has won awards from the Association of Health Care Journalists, American Society of Journalists and Authors, Society of Professional Journalists NorCal and Association of Food Journalists.

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Farmworkers pick strawberries in a field on June 12 in Oxnard, Calif. Credit: Apu Gomes/AFP via Getty Images

California Updates Pesticide Alert System

By Liza Gross

Hydrocarbon storage tanks—like this one in the backyard of a home in Arvin, Calif., and next to a playground—pose a disproportionate health risk when they leak. In addition to the climate super-pollutant methane, they emit a cocktail of toxic gases, including the carcinogen benzene. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

New Tool Maps the Health Impacts of Toxic Air Pollutants Released With Methane in Super-Emitter Events

By Liza Gross

Val Verde and Castaic residents call for the Chiquita Canyon Landfill to be closed during a protest in Castaic, Calif., on Feb. 22, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

The Smoldering, Noxious Waste Dump Next Door

By Liza Gross

Waste pickers carry plastic materials to recycle at the Gioto dumping site in Nakuru, Kenya. Credit: James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

From Landfills and Recycling Programs to Desks in Offices, Toxic Chemicals in Plastics Poison Workers

By Liza Gross

Luis Vayas Valdivieso, chair of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution, speaks during the second part of the fifth session of the INC on Tuesday in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: Florian Fussstetter/UNEP

Nations Meet in Geneva in a Final Push to End Plastic Pollution

By Liza Gross

Workers exit the Marathon Galveston Bay Refinery on May 10, 2022, in Texas City, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

OSHA Just Reduced the Value of a Worker’s Life

By Liza Gross

Congressman Mark DeSaulnier speaks to his constituents during a town hall meeting in 2019, similar to the one he held on Thursday. Credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images.

California Congressman Vows to Challenge Trump’s ‘Big Ugly Bill’

By Liza Gross

Chair Luis Vayas Valdivieso listens to a comment by a delegate during the fifth session of the U.N. Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution in Busan, South Korea, on Dec. 1, 2024. Credit: Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images

Global Plastics Talks Set to Resume Next Month Must Prioritize Environment and Health, Experts Say

By Liza Gross

A road worker drinks water at a construction site in Los Angeles as southern California faces a heatwave on Sept. 4, 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Will the Trump Administration Save Workers from Preventable Overheating Deaths?

By Liza Gross

Strawberry fields stretch for miles in all directions in Monterey County. Legacy pesticides and fertilizers used to grow the berries has made the tap water unfit to drink for local residents. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Violating California Residents’ Right to Water

By Liza Gross

A construction worker takes a break to wipe his brow while digging a trench amidst a heat wave in Irvine, Calif., on Sept. 5, 2024. Credit: Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

US Labor Advocates Demand Heat Protections for Workers as Planet Warms

By Liza Gross

California Attorney General Rob Bonta speaks during a town hall event with other West Coast state attorneys general to discuss protecting democracy in Seattle on June 2. Credit: Jason Redmond/AFP via Getty Images

California Sues Trump Administration Over Right to Clean Air

By Liza Gross

A microscopic view of a female Daphnia magna, or water flea, with a clutch of cloned eggs. Credit: Dieter Ebert/Bethesda/National Library of Medicine/National Center for Biotechnology Information

Heat Waves Are Changing Disease Dynamics in Unpredictable Ways, New Research Finds

By Liza Gross

An aerial view of traffic on a smoggy day in Los Angeles in January 1985. Credit: Ernst Haas/Getty Images

Republicans Flout Law and Precedent to Kill California’s Right to Clean Air

By Liza Gross

A construction worker takes a sip of water during a heat wave while repairing a road that was damaged from the heat in Houston, Texas on June 27, 2023. Credit: Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images

Republicans Attack Rules Designed to Keep Workers Safe From Heat

By Liza Gross

A Nissan Leaf EV charges at station on Sept. 23, 2024 in Pasadena, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Sues the Trump Administration for Violating the Constitution—Again

By Liza Gross

A blanket of smog covers downtown Los Angeles as seen from Mulholland Drive in 1984. Credit: UCLA Library, Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Ignoring Federal Law, House GOP Targets California’s Nation-Leading Vehicle Pollution Rules

By Liza Gross

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a stop of the “Fighting Oligarchy” tour at Folsom Lake College on Tuesday in Folsom, Calif. Credit: Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Sen. Bernie Sanders Brings His Fighting Oligarchy Tour to Conservative Rural California Districts

By Liza Gross

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