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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 California Water Board Assures the Public that Oil Wastewater Is Safe for Irrigation, But Experts Say the Evidence Is Scant 

By Liza Gross

A worker on a farm wears a Tyvek chemical protective suit as he sprays a field with a herbicide after the broccoli harvest. Credit: Andrew Holbrooke/Corbis via Getty Images

‘Reduced Risk’ Pesticides Are Widespread in California Streams

By Liza Gross

Hogs are raised on an Iowa farm on July 25, 2018. Credit: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Groups Urge the EPA to Do Its Duty: Regulate Factory Farm Emissions

By Liza Gross

Fracking fluid and other drilling wastes are dumped into an unlined pit located right up against the Petroleum Highway in Kern County, California. Credit: Sarah Craig/Faces of Fracking

Unchecked Oil and Gas Wastewater Threatens California Groundwater

By Liza Gross

Nick Edsall, orchard manager for Bullseye Farms, describes the benefits of cover crops and soil health during a farm tour for World Soil Day 2019. Credit: Becca Lucas

Q&A: Sustainable Farming Expert Weighs in on California’s Historic Investments in ‘Climate Smart’ Agriculture

By Liza Gross

A farmworker carries a box of broccoli in a field on Jan. 22, 2021 in Calexico, California. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images

Fires Fuel New Risks to California Farmworkers

By Liza Gross

President Joe Biden speaks during a conference call on climate change with the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate on Sept. 17, 2021 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Al Drago/Getty Images

Biden Administration Unveils Plan to Protect Workers and Communities from Extreme Heat

By Liza Gross

Farmworkers harvest cucumbers at Full Belly Farm in Guinda, California. Credit: Liza Gross

Farming Without a Net

By Liza Gross

The Glass Fire burns near the Jericho Canyon Vineyard and Winery about a mile out of downtown Calistoga, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Credit: Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images

Wildfire Smoke: An Emerging Threat to West Coast Wines

By Liza Gross

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross

Water birds fly over the Sacrameno-San Joaquin River Delta, which boasts a diversity of flora and fauna that thrive in wetlands about the size of Orange County. Credit: Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

A Delta in Distress

By Liza Gross

A farmworker wears a face mask while harvesting curly mustard in a field on Feb. 10, 2021 in Ventura County, California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

For Farmworkers, Heat Too Often Means Needless Death

By Liza Gross

Forests of the Living Dead

By Liza Gross

Residents gather in a public cooling shelter set up at the Oregon Convention Center during a heatwave in Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, June 26, 2021. Credit: Maranie Staab/Bloomberg via Getty Images

A Deadly Summer in the Pacific Northwest Augurs More Heat Waves, and More Deaths to Come

By Bob Berwyn, James Bruggers, Liza Gross

Chardonnay grapevines in the Russian River Valley flood on March 12, 2018, near Sebastopol, California. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

How Capturing Floodwaters Can Reduce Flooding and Combat Drought

By Liza Gross

In an aerial view, a tractor kicks up dust as it plows a dry field on May 25, 2021 in Madera, California. As California enters an extreme drought emergency, water is starting to become scarce in California's Central Valley. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

As California’s Drought Worsens, the Biden Administration Cuts Water Supplies and Farmers Struggle to Compensate

By Liza Gross

Tyrone Hayes, an endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks at King University. In 2002, Hayes reported that atrazine, manufactured by Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta, turned male frogs into hermaphrodites. Credit: Earl Neikirk

Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists

By Liza Gross

Sheep graze in a dry field near the town of McFarland in California's Central Valley, August 24, 2016. The Central Valley is the state's agriculture hub producing vast quantities of fruits, vegetables, nuts as well as dairy, beef and lamb but struggled through five years of the last drought. Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images

California’s Relentless Droughts Strain Farming Towns

By Liza Gross

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