Rachel Lewis

Environment Intern

Rachel Lewis is a newsroom production assistant reporting on the environment through the Great Lakes News Collaborative. She is a rising senior at Michigan State University majoring in journalism.

Environment & Climate Change

Experimental forecast hopes to warn when toxins from algal blooms in Lake Erie approach

Rachel Lewis

An experimental forecasting method developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration could help warn of approaching toxins from algal blooms in Lake Erie.
Environment & Climate Change

State sues two SE Michigan companies, alleges continued release of toxic chemicals into Huron River

Rachel Lewis

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is suing two Wixom-based automotive suppliers, Tribal Technologies and Adept Plastic Finishing.
Environment & Climate Change

Researchers studying why Michigan's moose population isn't growing

Rachel Lewis

Michigan researchers are studying why the Upper Peninsula’s moose population is stagnant. There are about half as many moose as expected after repopulation in the 1980s.
Economy

Reintroduced bill would open door to selling, revitalizing abandoned state prison

Rachel Lewis

A reintroduced state House bill proposes an abandoned Bay Region prison be repurposed for public use.