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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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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin attends a meeting with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House on March 13. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

EPA Cancels Key Science Advisory Board Meeting

By Liza Gross

A worker adjusts his helmet on a construction site under the sun in Los Angeles as southern California faces a heatwave on July 3, 2024. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Guts Agency Critical to Worker Safety as Temperatures Rise

By Liza Gross

A warning sign is posted at the edge of a celery farm to indicate the field is unsafe to enter shortly after an application of pesticide in Salinas Valley, Calif. Credit: Jack Clark/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

California Farmworker Communities Win the Right to Be Notified of Pesticide Applications in Advance

By Liza Gross

Faculty, students and staff at UC Berkeley attend a rally to defend higher education and academic freedom on Wednesday. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

UC Berkeley Faculty Organize Rally to Protest Trump’s Attacks on Academic Freedom

By Liza Gross

Firefighters put out a hot spot on Palisades Charter High School as multiple wildfires spread throughout Los Angeles on Jan. 7. Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

School Disruptions from the LA Fires Hit Latino, Disadvantaged and English-Language Learners Hardest, Experts Find

By Liza Gross

Demonstrators participate in the Stand Up for Science rally at the Lincoln Memorial on March 7 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Taking It to the Streets: Scientists Mobilize to Fight Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Anti-Science Agenda

By Liza Gross, Bob Berwyn, Dennis Pillion, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg

Electronic waste is seen in a recycling facility in the Guangdong Province of South China. Polymeric brominated flame retardants are widely used in electronics to reduce fire risk. Credit: Guillaume Payen/LightRocket via Getty Images

A ‘Trojan Horse’ for Toxic Chemicals

By Liza Gross

Youth soccer teams practice at Wilmington Waterfront Park in the shadow of a refinery in Los Angeles. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Lethal Greed: How Corporate Manipulation of Science and Regulation Makes People Sick

By Liza Gross

Discarded plastic and other material overflow in a garbage bin in Los Angeles. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Consumerism—and the Chemicals in All of Our Stuff—Is Thwarting the Transition From Fossil Fuels

By Liza Gross

A view of the Martinez Refining Company in Martinez, Calif. Credit: Michael Macor/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images

Big Oil’s Record-Breaking Spending on Lobbying Last Session Hobbled Key California Climate Measures

By Liza Gross

Manifestantes con pancartas contra el pesticida cancerígeno 1,3-D durante una audiencia sobre la propuesta de acción regulatoria el 16 de enero en Salinas, California. Crédito: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Protestas de trabajadores agrícolas y aliados en una audiencia sobre pesticidas en California

By Liza Gross

An EPA representative works in a residential area which burned during the Palisades Fire on Jan. 28 in Los Angeles. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

Trump Administration Scrubs EPA Staff’s Pronouns from Their Emails and Websites Without Their Knowledge

By Liza Gross

Homes sit in the shadows of the Inglewood Oil Field in Los Angeles on Sept. 25, 2024. Credit: Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Living Near Active Oil and Gas Wells May Have Increased Risk of Dying from COVID-19

By Liza Gross

Trabajadores migrantes cosechan fresas en un campo al sur de San Francisco. Crédito: Visions of America/Joe Sohm/Universal Images Group vía Getty Images

Pesticidas venenosos cuentan la historia de dos Californias

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Protesters hold signs in opposition of the cancer-causing 1,3-D at a hearing covering proposed regulation of the fumigant on Jan. 16 in Salinas, Calif. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

Farmworkers and Allies Stage Die-in at California Pesticide Hearing

By Liza Gross

A wind turbine generates electricity at the Block Island Wind Farm off the shores of Rhode Island. Credit: John Moore/Getty Images

Executive Orders on Energy and Climate Have Advocates Across the Nation on Edge

By Dan Gearino, Aman Azhar, Amy Green, Dylan Baddour, Jake Bolster, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Lauren Dalban, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Nicholas Kusnetz, Phil McKenna

A family of deer gather around burned trees from the Palisades Fire at Will Rogers State Park on Jan. 9 in Los Angeles. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Are Southern California Fires Outpacing Wildlife’s Ability to Adapt?

By Liza Gross

Sandhill cranes fly in for the night at the Woodbridge Ecological Reserve in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, one of their favorite roosting spots in California’s Central Valley. Credit: Liza Gross/Inside Climate News

California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline

By Liza Gross

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