Rebecca Williams
Senior Editor, NewsRebecca Williams is senior editor in the newsroom, where she edits stories and helps guide news coverage.
She's been with Michigan Public for more than 20 years. She's been an editor, reporter and producer, host of the Environment Report, and an on-air host.
Rebecca has a degree in resource ecology and management from the University of Michigan’s School of Natural Resources & Environment, where she had close encounters with escaped boars and poison sumac.
She’s won several national awards for her work, including a national Edward R. Murrow award for a documentary, Coal: Dirty Past, Hazy Future that she reported with Mark Brush and Lester Graham, and she shared in the prestigious duPont-Columbia and Scripps Howard awards for team coverage of the Flint water crisis.
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The federal government has been slow to act on climate change. So Michigan cities are taking charge.When President Donald Trump announced in 2017 that the United States would pull out of the Paris Agreement, cities across the country declared that they…
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Gov. Whitmer's office and Benton Harbor school board official say "lines of communication are open."Update: July 9, 2019 6:45 p.m.Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist met today with officials from the Benton Harbor school board.…
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Benton Harbor High School could stay open for the next year, if the school board votes on Tuesday night to approve an agreement with the state.State…
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Divers are planning to collect zebra and quagga mussels this week in Muskegon. It’s part of a national effort to study chemical pollution, called Mussel…
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This week, we’re looking at PFAS chemicals: they're industrial chemicals that have contaminated water sources around the state.PFAS chemicals are used to…
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The monarch butterflies that are emerging right now in Michigan have a long trip ahead of them.They’ll fly several thousand miles to the oyamel fir…
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The creatures that live with us in cities – things like spiders, owls, lizards and mice – are evolving over time.A new set of studies in a special issue…
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Researchers have found that some of the most common reptiles and amphibians that people own as pets are also the most likely to be released into the…
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Public health experts want us to pay more attention to the effects of climate change on kids.Madeleine Thomson is a senior research scientist at the…
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Many Americans are ok with genetic engineering of animals if it benefits human health. But a lot of people oppose other uses of the technology. Those are…