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Liza Gross

Liza Gross

Reporter, West Coast, National Environmental Reporting Network

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.

A French farmer fills his sprayer with glyphosate herbicide "Roundup 720" made by agrochemical giant Monsanto prior to spraying in Piace, northwestern France, in a corn field, on April 23, 2021. Credit: Jean-Francois/AFP via Getty Images

Roundup, the World’s Favorite Weed Killer, Linked to Liver, Metabolic Diseases in Kids

By Liza Gross

Pump jacks at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

State Sen. Lena Gonzalez toured Mark Twain Elementary School before speaking at a press conference to promote support for Proposition 13, the historic school facilities bond, in Long Beach on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Credit: Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images

Q&A: California Drilling Setback Law Suspended by Oil Industry Ballot Maneuver. The Law’s Author Won’t Back Down

By Liza Gross

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

An oil rig that has repeatedly emitted toxic gases operates next to a single-family home, an apartment complex and, just beyond the trees, a playground, in Kern County, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

Firefighters are silhouetted against the setting sun while monitoring fire and wind conditions from a hillside in Hemet, California on Sept. 6, 2022. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out

By Liza Gross

An active oil drilling rig is located next to a single family home on Sept. 21, 2022 in Signal Hill, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

Petition Circulators Are Telling California Voters that a Ballot Measure Would Ban New Oil and Gas Wells Near Homes. In Fact, It Would Do the Opposite

By Liza Gross

Electric vehicle charging station in Los Angeles, California. Credit: Citizen of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Climate Measure Fails After ‘Green’ Governor Opposed It in a Campaign Supporters Called ‘Misleading’

By Liza Gross

An active oil drilling rig is located in a housing community next to homes on Sept. 21, 2022 in Signal Hill, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

Oil Industry Moves to Overturn Historic California Drilling Protection Law

By Liza Gross

¿Por qué permiten que las compañías petroleras de California, asolada por la sequía, usen agua dulce?

By Liza Gross

Wastewater from oil operations is often dumped into unlined pits, a practice that has contaminated protected groundwater in Kern County and other oil-producing areas in California. Credit: Liza Gross

Drought-Wracked California Allows Oil Companies to Use High-Quality Water. But Regulators’ Error-Strewn Records Make Accurate Accounting Nearly Impossible

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Una bomba extrae petróleo crudo justo detrás de la ventana del dormitorio de Yesinia Martínez, quien ha tenido problemas de salud, la mayoría relacionados con la extracción de petróleo y gas, desde que era pequeña. Crédito: Liza Gross

Cuando tu vecino es un pozo de petróleo

By Liza Gross

A bumblebee hangs on a still-red blueberry. Credit: Frank Rumpenhorst/picture alliance via Getty Images

Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops

By Liza Gross

Kyle Ferrar of FracTracker Alliance has documented emissions of the climate super-pollutant methane and hazardous air contaminants drifting from this oil well site toward the Grow Academy K-8 school in Arvin, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Passes Law Requiring Buffer Zones for New Oil and Gas Wells

By Liza Gross

A pumpjack extracts crude oil just behind Yesinia Martinez's bedroom window. Martinez has had health problems, most linked to oil and gas extraction, since she was little. Credit: Liza Gross

When an Oil Well Is Your Neighbor

By Liza Gross

California Water Regulators Still Haven’t Considered the Growing Body of Research on the Risks of Oil Field Wastewater

By Liza Gross

A pregnant woman receives an exam from her doctor. Biomonitoring studies have measured at least 43 chemicals from diverse classes of chemical compounds in 99-100% of pregnant women in the United States. Credit: Jason Connolly/AFP via Getty Images

Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Harming the Planet. They’re Making Us Sick

By Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

California Regulators Banned Fracking Wastewater for Irrigation, but Allow Wastewater From Oil Drilling. Scientists Say There’s Little Difference

By Liza Gross

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