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.
Consumerism—and the Chemicals in All of Our Stuff—Is Thwarting the Transition From Fossil Fuels
By Liza Gross
Big Oil’s Record-Breaking Spending on Lobbying Last Session Hobbled Key California Climate Measures
By Liza Gross
Protestas de trabajadores agrícolas y aliados en una audiencia sobre pesticidas en California
By Liza Gross
Trump Administration Scrubs EPA Staff’s Pronouns from Their Emails and Websites Without Their Knowledge
By Liza Gross
Living Near Active Oil and Gas Wells May Have Increased Risk of Dying from COVID-19
By Liza Gross
Pesticidas venenosos cuentan la historia de dos Californias
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
Farmworkers and Allies Stage Die-in at California Pesticide Hearing
By Liza Gross
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
Are Southern California Fires Outpacing Wildlife’s Ability to Adapt?
By Liza Gross
California Rice Fields Offer Threatened Migratory Waterbirds a Lifeline
By Liza Gross
Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous
California Water Experts Prepare for Climate Whiplash
By Liza Gross
Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate
By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow
Climate Change Has Dangerously Supercharged Fires, Hurricanes, Floods and Heat Waves. Why Didn’t It Come Up More in the Presidential Campaign?
By Kiley Bense, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna
Record-Breaking Heat Waves Add to Risks for Western Monarchs
By Liza Gross
In Competitive Purple Districts, GOP House Members Paint Themselves Green
By Marianne Lavelle, Liza Gross