Articles by Regional Reporter, Great Lakes Izzy Ross
Izzy Ross is the Great Lakes reporter for Grist and Interlochen Public Radio, where she covers how climate change impacts communities and ecosystems in northern Michigan and across the region. Previously, she spent five years as a reporter and news director at KDLG in Dillingham, Alaska, producing award-winning local news in Bristol Bay and leading the annual Bristol Bay Fisheries Report. Her work has appeared all over, including on NPR and National Native News, and is regularly featured in outlets across Michigan and the Great Lakes.
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![Smoke rising from a coal-fired power plant]()
![Smoke rising from a coal-fired power plant]()
Michigan’s ambitious clean energy laws face a peninsula-sized hurdle
Natural gas power plants put in place just five years ago to replace coal in the state's Upper Peninsula are now a conundrum for regulators.
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![Two men install solar panels on the roof of a two-story house with a shingled roof and white columns on the gabled front porch.]()
![Two men install solar panels on the roof of a two-story house with a shingled roof and white columns on the gabled front porch.]()
Homeowners associations in Michigan now have to allow rooftop solar
A new law makes it difficult for HOAs to say no to sun power.
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![Giant yellow coils of pipeline sit on ground against blue/gray sky.]()
![Giant yellow coils of pipeline sit on ground against blue/gray sky.]()
Northern Michiganders are getting off propane — and on to natural gas
The state’s largest utility says natural gas is a bridge fuel, but advocates say it’s no climate solution.
