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Liza Gross, Inside Climate News

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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Indigenous Farmworkers from Mexico in Crisis After Catastrophic, Climate Change-Fueled Flood
Cascading climate disasters and unjust labor and immigration policies leave undocumented Indigenous farmworkers from Mexico without a safety net.
A black and white historical photo shoes white commercial/industrial buildings in the foreground with houses in the background consumed by plumes of black smoke erupting out of oil wells, with a number of derricks appearing in black against a smoky sky.
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Even as fossil fuel extraction declined in the state, low-income, Black and Latino residents continued to face disproportionate risks from living near oil wells, and Black residents were exposed to the most intensive operations.
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