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.
California Slashed Harmful Vehicle Emissions, but People of Color and Overburdened Communities Continue to Breathe the Worst Air
By Liza Gross
10 Tough Climate Questions for the Presidential Debate
By Marianne Lavelle, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross
California Climate and Health Groups Urge Legislators to Pass Polluter Pays Bills
By Liza Gross
EPA Thought Industry-Funded Scientists Could Support Its Conclusion That a Long-Regulated Pesticide Is Not a Cancer Risk
By Liza Gross
California Still Has No Plan to Phase Out Oil Refineries
By Liza Gross
Will the Nation’s First Heat Protection Standard Safeguard the Most Vulnerable Workers?
By Liza Gross
California Communities Celebrate ‘Massive’ Victory as Oil Industry Drops Unpopular Referendum
By Liza Gross
California Oil Town Chose a Firm with Oil Industry Ties to Review Impacts of an Unprecedented 20-Year Drilling Permit Extension
By Liza Gross
After the Deluge, Images of Impacts and Resilience in Pájaro, California
By Liza Gross
Climate Justice Groups Confront Chevron on San Francisco Bay
By Liza Gross
Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up
By Liza Gross
California Community Organizer Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize
By Liza Gross
Across the US, Awe Unites During the Darkness of a Total Solar Eclipse
By Lee Hedgepeth, Erin Schulte, Keerti Gopal, Kiley Bense, Liza Gross, Phil McKenna
California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds
By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross
California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer
By Liza Gross
California’s Climate Leaders Vow to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies to Account
By Liza Gross