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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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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

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are set to debate on Tuesday night. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images and Melina Mara/The Washington Post

10 Tough Climate Questions for the Presidential Debate

By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross

Assemblymember Dawn Addis (D-San Luis Obispo) talks about her bill to reaffirm local governments’ authority to regulate oil and gas production at a rally outside the California State Capitol in Sacramento on Monday. Credit: Last Chance Alliance

California Climate and Health Groups Urge Legislators to Pass Polluter Pays Bills

By Liza Gross

Farmworkers pick strawberries on a field in Oxnard, Calif. Growers applied more than 60 million pounds of the fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene on crops such as strawberries to kill nematodes and other soil-dwelling organisms in 2018, the most recent year data is available. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk

By Liza Gross

Vehicles pass the Phillips 66 Los Angeles Oil Refinery in Wilmington, California. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Still Has No Plan to Phase Out Oil Refineries

By Liza Gross

Farmworkers wear protective clothing while working in a bell pepper field through a heat wave on July 3 in Camarillo, California. Credit: Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images

Will the Nation’s First Heat Protection Standard Safeguard the Most Vulnerable Workers?

By Liza Gross

A student walks by an active oil drilling field located near Alliance Ted K. Tajima High School in Los Angeles on Sept. 27, 2023. Credit: Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

California Communities Celebrate ‘Massive’ Victory as Oil Industry Drops Unpopular Referendum

By Liza Gross

An oil pumpjack sits near homes in Signal Hill, Calif. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images

California Oil Town Chose a Firm with Oil Industry Ties to Review Impacts of an Unprecedented 20-Year Drilling Permit Extension

By Liza Gross

More than a year ago, a catastrophic flood submerged the tiny town of Pájaro, about 95 miles south of San Francisco. The Pájaro PhotoVoice Project offered survivors of the disaster the opportunity to use photography to grapple with the impacts of climate change. Credit: Ricardo Paz-Hernandez

After the Deluge, Images of Impacts and Resilience in Pájaro, California

By Liza Gross

Activists with the Richmond-based Rich City Rays gather in front of a tanker carrying liquified natural gas in San Francisco Bay. Credit: Brooke Anderson

Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay

By Liza Gross

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