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Liza Gross

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.

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Pauly Andy transports people and belonging using an all-terrain vehicles in Newtok, Alaska, where melting permafrost, sinking tundra and flooding disturbed the boardwalks on October 9, 2019. Credit: Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images

Environmental Justice a Key Theme Throughout Biden’s National Climate Assessment

By Kristoffer Tigue, Georgina Gustin, Liza Gross, Victoria St. Martin

Spraying an agricultural field on the eastern shore of Maryland. Credit: Edwin Remsburg/VW Pics via Getty Images

Toxic Pesticides Are Sprayed Next to Thousands of US Schools

By Liza Gross

Cilantro grows on farmland near San Luis Obispo Regional Airport in California that has been irrigated with well water contaminated with high levels of PFAS chemicals from firefighting foam that for years was used in training exercises at the airport in August. Credit: Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

EPA to Fund Studies of Toxic ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Agriculture

By Liza Gross

Caitlin Kupar prepares to give a cougar kitten a health assessment while visiting a den on Washington state's Olympic Peninsula in June.

Crowding Out Cougars

By Liza Gross,  Photos by Michael Kodas

The disastrous Pajaro flood made the home Emilio Vasquez rents with his family unlivable. He's still waiting to hear when he can move back in. Credit: Liza Gross

A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis

By Liza Gross

Roundup, the world's top weedkiller: Credit: Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images.

Roundup Weedkiller Manufacturers to Pay $6.9 Million in False Advertising Settlement

By Liza Gross

John Carter looks at old oil field equipment covered by vegetation near his home February 18, 2016 in Depew, Oklahoma. Thousands of abandoned oil wells were never properly mapped and many of the original drilling companies no longer exist. Credit: J Pat Carter/Getty Images)

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

A large fracking operation becomes a new part of the horizon with Mount Meeker and Longs Peak looming in the background on Dec. 28, 2017 in Loveland, Colorado. Credit: Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post via Getty Images

Colorado Frackers Doubled Freshwater Use During Megadrought, Even as Drilling and Oil Production Fell

By Liza Gross

In Signal Hill, California, an oil pump jack stands idle near homes, in February 2023. California law S.B. 1137, which required a safety buffer zone of 3,200 feet around homes and schools for new oil and gas drilling, was suspended after the petroleum industry last year collected enough signatures in a petition campaign to place a referendum on the 2024 general election ballot. The bill was originally signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom last year and also banned new drilling near parks, health care facilities, prisons and businesses open to the public. Credit: Mario Tama/Getty Images.

Environmental Justice Advocates Urge California to Stop Issuing New Drilling Permits in Neighborhoods

By Liza Gross

Nearby homes are in danger of fire after an explosion on the Signal Hill oil field in Long Beach, California, June 1933. Credit: FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

History of Racism Leaves Black Californians Most at Risk from Oil and Gas Drilling, New Research Shows

By Liza Gross

A French farmer fills his sprayer with glyphosate herbicide "Roundup 720" made by agrochemical giant Monsanto prior to spraying in Piace, northwestern France, in a corn field, on April 23, 2021. Credit: Jean-Francois/AFP via Getty Images

Roundup, the World’s Favorite Weed Killer, Linked to Liver, Metabolic Diseases in Kids

By Liza Gross

Pump jacks at the Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site in Kern County, California. Credit: Citizens of the Planet/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Fracking Wastewater Causes Lasting Harm to Key Freshwater Species

By Liza Gross

State Sen. Lena Gonzalez toured Mark Twain Elementary School before speaking at a press conference to promote support for Proposition 13, the historic school facilities bond, in Long Beach on Friday, Feb. 28, 2020. Credit: Brittany Murray/MediaNews Group/Long Beach Press-Telegram via Getty Images

Q&A: California Drilling Setback Law Suspended by Oil Industry Ballot Maneuver. The Law’s Author Won’t Back Down

By Liza Gross

Residents work to push back wet mud that trapped cars and invaded some houses on Jan. 11, 2023 in Piru, east of Fillmore, California. A series of powerful storms pounded California in striking contrast to the past three years of severe to extreme drought experienced by most of the state. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Confronting California’s Water Crisis

By Liza Gross

An oil rig that has repeatedly emitted toxic gases operates next to a single-family home, an apartment complex and, just beyond the trees, a playground, in Kern County, California. Credit: Liza Gross

California Activists Redouble Efforts to Hold the Oil Industry Accountable on Neighborhood Drilling

By Liza Gross

Firefighters are silhouetted against the setting sun while monitoring fire and wind conditions from a hillside in Hemet, California on Sept. 6, 2022. Credit: Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images

California Had a Watershed Climate Year, But Time Is Running Out

By Liza Gross

An active oil drilling rig is located next to a single family home on Sept. 21, 2022 in Signal Hill, California. Credit: Allison Dinner/Getty Images

Petition Circulators Are Telling California Voters that a Ballot Measure Would Ban New Oil and Gas Wells Near Homes. In Fact, It Would Do the Opposite

By Liza Gross

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