Izzy Ross
Climate Solutions ReporterIzzy covers climate change for communities in northern Michigan and around the Great Lakes for IPR through a partnership with Grist.org.
Izzy spent five years at KDLG in Dillingham, Alaska, as a reporter and news director. There, she covered local news in Bristol Bay, collaborated with other radio stations across the state and reported for Alaska's Energy Desk. She also led the annual Bristol Bay Fisheries Report, a daily show for the region's communities and thousands of commercial fishermen.
Izzy grew up in the Hudson Valley, New York. She graduated from Smith College and spent a year reporting on stand-up comedy in Berlin on a Fulbright Journalism Fellowship. Izzy loves to salsa dance, experiment with baking and play the board game Everdell.
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State officials are asking for federal dollars to be sent to northern Michigan -
The federal review of the Line 5 tunnel project will be sped up through new emergency procedures under an executive order from President Donald Trump. -
With more ice storms expected in the decades ahead as the climate changes, utilities are trying to figure out how to be ready for the next ice storm. -
The agency is moving to get gridlocked money to farmers and business owners. Some worry about the implications of its guidance around DEI and climate language. -
Some policy experts worry political tensions are threatening the future of the largest freshwater ecosystem on Earth. -
The tribes already had concerns about the process, but news that the Army Corps will likely fast-track the federal permit for the pipeline tunnel was “the final straw,” said Whitney Gravelle, president of the Bay Mills Indian Community. -
Rural residents are left holding the bills for everything from solar panels to grain dryers. -
Each Monday on Morning Edition, an IPR journalist brings you up to speed on what’s going on in northern Michigan, and what IPR is working on this week. -
The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians began an appeal of the decree in the fall of 2023. -
An attorney with the township said if it were to bring a lawsuit, it would likely fail.
