Liza Gross
Reporter, West Coast, National Environmental Reporting Network
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.
Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools
By Liza Gross
EPA to Fund Studies of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Agriculture
By Liza Gross
Crowding Out Cougars
By Liza Gross, Photos by Michael Kodas
A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis
By Liza Gross
Roundup Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in False Advertising Settlement
By Liza Gross
Abandoned Oil and Gas Wells Emit Carcinogens and Other Harmful Pollutants, Groundbreaking Study Shows
By Liza Gross
What Is Produced Water?
By Liza Gross, Dylan Baddour
Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell
By Liza Gross
Environmental Justice Advocates Urge California to Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits in Neighborhoods
By Liza Gross
History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows
By Liza Gross
Roundup, the World’s Favorite Weed Killer, Linked to Liver, Metabolic Diseases in Kids
By Liza Gross
Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species
By Liza Gross
Q&A: California Drilling Setback Law Suspended by Oil Industry Ballot Maneuver. The Law’s Author Won’t Back Down
By Liza Gross
Confronting California’s Water Crisis
By Liza Gross
California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling
By Liza Gross
California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out
By Liza Gross