Izzy Ross

Reporter at WICA-FM (Traverse City, MI)

regional reporter @grist + Interlochen Public Radio 📻✏️climate + environment out of northern MI |previously @kdlgradio 🎧🎙️🐟 |she/her |views are my own

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Army Corps details new schedule for Line 5 tunnel permit process

1 week ago | radio.wcmu.org | Izzy Ross

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a new, shorter timeline for its environmental review of the Line 5 tunnel project. In April, the Army Corps announced it would speed up its review of the tunnel project under a national energy emergency declared by President Donald Trump.
Florida bees hard at work in Michigan cherry orchards

1 week ago | heraldpalladium.com | Izzy Ross

Tens of thousands of bees teem inside a hive just placed in the Wunsch Farms cherry orchards on Old Mission Peninsula. May 1, 2025. (Photo: Izzy Ross/IPR News)kAmk6>m%9:D 4@G6C286 :D >256 A@DD:3=6 E9C@F89 2 A2CE?6CD9:A 36EH66? x!# 2?5k^6>m k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^8C:DE]@C8Q E2C86ElQ03=2?<Qmk6>mvC:DEk^6>mk^2mk6>m[ 2 ?@?AC@7:E 6?G:C@?>6?E2= >65:2 @C82?:K2E:@?]k^6>mk^AmkAm#2:? :D A6=E:?8 E96 496CCJ @C492C5D 2E (F?D49 u2C>D @? E96 ~=5 |:DD:@? !6?:?DF=2]k^AmkAm|:492= !6E6CD@? :D H62C:?8 2 7F== DF:E @7 C2:? 862C] ~?
Florida bees hard at work in Michigan cherry orchards

1 week ago | michiganadvance.com | Izzy Ross

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Rain is pelting the cherry orchards at Wunsch Farms on the Old Mission Peninsula. Michal Peterson is wearing a full suit of rain gear. On the back of a flatbed truck are bee hives, stacked two or three high and dripping wet in the downpour.
Army Corps announces new Line 5 tunnel permitting timeline

1 week ago | heraldpalladium.com | Izzy Ross

The Mackinac Bridge in the Straits of Mackinac, May 27, 2024 | Susan J. DemaskAmk6>m%9:D 4@G6C286 :D >256 A@DD:3=6 E9C@F89 2 A2CE?6CD9:A 36EH66?
Army Corps announces new Line 5 tunnel permitting timeline

1 week ago | michiganadvance.com | Izzy Ross

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a new, shorter timeline for its environmental review of the Line 5 tunnel project. In April, the Army Corps announced it would speed up its review of the tunnel project under a national energy emergency declared by President Donald Trump.
Florida bees hard at work in Michigan cherry orchards

1 week ago | metrotimes.com | Izzy Ross

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POSTCARD: Florida bees hard at work in Michigan cherry orchards

1 week ago | interlochenpublicradio.org | Izzy Ross

Listen to this story by clicking the audio player at the top of this story This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Rain is pelting the cherry orchards at Wunsch Farms on the Old Mission Peninsula. Michal Peterson is wearing a full suit of rain gear. On the back of a flatbed truck are bee hives, stacked two or three high and dripping wet in the downpour.
Northern Michigan ice storm debris become renewable energy: 'We were green before green was cool'

2 weeks ago | planetdetroit.org | Izzy Ross

Overview: -In northern Michigan, the same debris that knocked out the power a few weeks ago could be used to make electricity. -Some of the woody debris could go to landscaping businesses to be used as much, and it's also being sold to biomass facilities that will turn the debris into energy. -“We've been in the renewable power business for a long time," says the director of biomass operations at NorthStar Clean Energy.
Northern Michigan moves to clean up ice storm debris - by making energy

2 weeks ago | heraldpalladium.com | Izzy Ross

Terry and Nancy Chamberlin drop off yet another load of wooden debris from their property in Alanson on April 25, 2025. (Photo: Izzy Ross/IPR News)kAmk6>m%9:D 4@G6C286 :D >256 A@DD:3=6 E9C@F89 2 A2CE?6CD9:A 36EH66? x!# 2?5k^6>m k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^8C:DE]@C8Q E2C86ElQ03=2?<Qmk6>mvC:DEk^6>mk^2mk6>m[ 2 ?@?AC@7:E 6?G:C@?>6?E2= >65:2 @C82?:K2E:@?]k^6>mk^AmkAmpE 2 8:2?E 5:CE =@E @77 2 D:56 C@25 :?
Northern Michigan moves to clean up ice storm debris — by making energy • Michigan Advance

2 weeks ago | michiganadvance.com | Izzy Ross

This coverage is made possible through a partnership between IPR and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. At a giant dirt lot off a side road in Emmet County, the air smells sharply of pine. Enormous piles of logs and branches sit around the property. Terry and Nancy Chamberlin drag pine branches out of the bed of a black pickup truck and a small trailer — trees from their five-acre property in Alanson. “We got hit real hard on this.