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.
Trump Doubles Down on Climate Denial With Plan to Repeal Power Plant Rules
By Liza Gross
Jet Fuel in the Water
Inside Climate Podcast
Industry Interests Spent Big Money to Stop California From Banning PFAS Pesticides
By Liza Gross
No One Knows All the Toxic Chemicals You’re Eating
By Liza Gross
Can California Farmers Break Free From Plastic?
By Liza Gross
Empowering Guatemalan Villagers Plagued by Plastic
Story by Liza Gross, photos by Michael Kodas
California Pesticide Agency Hopelessly Captured by Industry, Critics Charge
By Liza Gross
Wildfire Smoke Is Now a Bigger Prenatal Threat Than Human Sources of Air Pollution
By Liza Gross
California Biofuel Refinery Workers Say Understaffing and Fatigue Threaten Their Safety and the Community
By Liza Gross
Chemical Accidents Rise as Trump Administration Proposes Weakening Safety Rules
By Liza Gross
California Pesticide Regulators Say New Rules Protect Communities as Applications of a Dangerous Fumigant Rise
By Liza Gross
World Health Organization Must Prioritize Workers, Experts Say
By Liza Gross
Fossil-Fuel Funded GOP Leaders Claim a Renowned Scientific Institution Has ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’
By Liza Gross
Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule
By Liza Gross
Chemical Threats Nearby? Trump’s EPA Doesn’t Want You to Know.
By Liza Gross
California Bill Aims to Keep Toxic PFAS off Its Crops
By Liza Gross