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.
Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species
By Liza Gross
Q&A: California Drilling Setback Law Suspended by Oil Industry Ballot Maneuver. The Law’s Author Won’t Back Down
By Liza Gross
Confronting California’s Water Crisis
By Liza Gross
California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling
By Liza Gross
California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out
By Liza Gross
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
California Climate Measure Fails After ‘Green’ Governor Opposed It in a Campaign Supporters Called ‘Misleading’
By Liza Gross
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
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
Cuando tu vecino es un pozo de petróleo
By Liza Gross
Extreme Heat Poses an Emerging Threat to Food Crops
By Liza Gross
California Passes Law Requiring Buffer Zones for New Oil and Gas Wells
By 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
Fossil Fuels Aren’t Just Harming the Planet. They’re Making Us Sick
By Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin
