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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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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, California. 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

Children play basketball beside an oil well pump jack and tank in the Wilmington neighborhood of Los Angeles. Credit: Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images

Battle to Prioritize Public Health over Oil Company Profits Heats Up

By Liza Gross

Community organizer Andrea Vidaurre won the 2024 Goldman Prize for her role in persuading the California Air Resources Board to pass two historic transportation regulations limiting truck and rail emissions. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

California Community Organizer Wins Prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize

By Liza Gross

Members of Climate Defiance use the eclipse to raise awareness about climate issues during totality in Burlington, Vermont. Credit: Courtesy of Climate Defiance

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

An In-N-Out Burger is closed and tented for termite fumigation on March 13 in Hollywood, Calif. Credit: AaronP/Bauer-Griffin via Getty Images

California Leads the Nation in Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna, Liza Gross

A worker sprays weed killer around the edges of a vineyard near Healdsburg, Calif. Credit: George Rose/Getty Images

California’s Latino Communities Most at Risk From Exposure to Brain-Damaging Weed Killer

By Liza Gross

Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles) recently introduced a bill to encourage companies that operate low-producing oil wells near frontline communities to clean them up or pay a penalty. Credit: Lara Aburamadan/Survival Media Agency

California’s Climate Leaders Vow to Hold Fossil Fuel Companies to Account

By Liza Gross

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