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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Dry months of the year have been getting hotter in large parts of the U.S.Felicia Chiang is the lead author of a new study on droughts and climate change,… -
If you’re out on a lake this summer and you stumble on a blob that looks like an alien life form, it could actually be a good thing.Jo Latimore got an… -
It’s breeding season for monarch butterflies, and government officials from the U.S., Canada and Mexico want your help collecting data on them.The second… -
The state Legislature is considering bills that would speed up wetland restoration in Michigan.“Wetlands are nature’s answer to a lot of our societal woes… -
More than 16,000 ticks have arrived in Nate Nieto’s mailbox.He’s an associate professor of microbiology at Northern Arizona University, and he launched a… -
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed tighter standards for lead in dust on floors and window sills. Lead dust can be a big source of lead… -
If you’ve ever tried to keep a raccoon out of your trash can, you know they’re smart. At my house, it takes a brick on top of the trash can and a bungee… -
A lot of economists like the idea of putting a price on the use of fossil fuels, as a way to tackle climate change.But it’s been a hard sell politically.A… -
The amount of tree cover in our cities is dropping, and we have more paved surfaces. Those are the main findings from a national study by the U.S. Forest… -
This time of year, it’s good to keep an eye out for turtles that might be slowly crossing the road.Lori Sargent is a wildlife biologist with the Michigan…