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.
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
Petrochemicals Are Killing Us, a New Report Warns in the New England Journal of Medicine
By Liza Gross
Q&A: California Nurse and Environmental Health Pioneer Barbara Sattler on Climate Change as a Medical Emergency
By Liza Gross
Una inundación catastrófica en la costa central de California profundizó la crisis de los ya marginados trabajadores agrícolas indígenas
By Liza Gross
Climate Takes a Back Seat in High-Profile California Primary Campaigns. One Candidate Aims to Change That
By Liza Gross
A medida que aumentan las temperaturas, más trabajadores mueren en el campo
By Liza Gross, Peter Aldhous