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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One of the worst oil spills into an inland waterway in U.S. history happened right here in Michigan, 10 years ago this week.It happened on a Sunday… -
Following two nights of protests in Detroit over the police killing of George Floyd, where police released tear gas on protesters in attempts to divide… -
What started out as a large peaceful protest in Grand Rapids against police violence during the day on Saturday turned chaotic at night and into the early… -
Update: May 30, 2020 4:20 p.m.Detroit Police Chief James Craig says 60 people were arrested during Friday night’s melee. Thirty-seven of them were from… -
Updated Tuesday, March 17 at 11:02 p.m.:This page is no longer being actively updated. Please visit our tracking map for a breakdown of which counties… -
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… -
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.… -
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… -
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… -
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…
