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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The historic restart of a nuclear power plant is planned for later this year on the shores of Lake Michigan, and a northern Michigan energy cooperative is playing a major role. -
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DNR pans to clear a little over half a square mile of forest for solar panels in Otsego County sparked a firestorm of criticism from lawmakers. -
In partnership with Grist, a look at how northern Michigan's famous industry is coping with a changing climate. -
The $50 million grant was advanced by the House Appropriations Committee last week. -
Among the longer-term approaches to address increasingly unreliable winter weather, some groups are pushing against fossil fuels. -
A new federal bill aims to close the gap for businesses that suffered from a lack of snow last year that weren't eligible for federal loans. -
A $50 million grant for a copper mine in the Upper Peninsula was approved by the state House Appropriations Committee. -
An amicus brief argues that a 1977 treaty between the United States and Canada gives Michigan a say over the pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. -
Industrial agriculture in the Upper Midwest has been a driving force behind wetland loss. The farm bill might hold a solution.
