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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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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

Migrant workers pick strawberries during harvest on a farm south of San Francisco. Credit: Visions of America/Joe Sohm/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Agricultural Poisons Tell a Tale of Two Californias

By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous

Firefighters block off a flooded road as a powerful atmospheric river brings heavy rains and wind to the San Francisco Bay Area on Nov. 22 in Windsor, Calif. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

California Water Experts Prepare for Climate Whiplash

By Liza Gross

California voters cast their ballots at the Joslyn Park voting center on Tuesday in Santa Monica. Credit: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Climate Initiatives Fare Well Across the Country Despite National Political Climate

By Lee Hedgepeth, Kristoffer Tigue, Lisa Sorg, Liza Gross, Martha Pskowski, Wyatt Myskow

A Plumas Hotshots fire crew work to fight the Park Fire near Tehama County's Mill Creek area in California on Aug. 7. The fire burned some 429,603 acres according to Cal Fire. Credit: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images

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

Western monarchs feed on Pacific aster nectar while overwintering in the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif. Credit: Barry Bergman

Record-Breaking Heat Waves Add to Risks for Western Monarchs

By Liza Gross

Flor Olvera gives a pamphlet to resident Emma Garcia while canvassing for Rudy Salas, a Democrat running for California's 22nd Congressional District, in Wasco on Aug. 24. Credit: Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

In Competitive Purple Districts, GOP House Members Paint Themselves Green

By Marianne Lavelle, Liza Gross

Children play soccer next to active oil wells in Los Angeles County’s Inglewood Oil Field, the largest urban oil field in the nation. Credit: Gary Kavanagh

California Governor Signs Bills to Tighten Restrictions on Oil and Gas Drillers

By Liza Gross

CalFire manages a prescribed controlled burn in Northern California on Nov. 14, 2023. Wildfire prevention, among other climate solutions, is on the state's ballot as Proposition 4. Credit: Penny Collins/NurPhoto via Getty Images

California Ballot Asks Voters to Invest in Climate Solutions

By Liza Gross

A commuter wears a “slightly satiric” gas mask in Los Angeles in 1966. By the 1940s, smog from vehicle exhaust had gotten so bad that the county formed the nation’s first air pollution control district. Credit: Herald Examiner Collection/Los Angeles Public Library

California Slashed Harmful Vehicle Emissions, but People of Color and Overburdened Communities Continue to Breathe the Worst Air

By Liza Gross

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