Teresa Homsi
Environmental ReporterTeresa Homsi is an environmental reporter based in northern Michigan. She started as the station as Report for America Corps Member and graduated from the program. She is covering rural environmental issues, focused on contamination, conservation and climate change.
Homsi has a bachelor’s from Central Michigan University in environmental studies, journalism and anthropology. She also holds her master's in Public Health from CMU. Her work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Marketplace, across the Harvest Public Media network and in Hearst publications.
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Michigan health officials have updated their guidelines on toxic "forever chemicals" in fish, tripling the number of lakes and rivers, where anglers are advised to not eat their catch. -
Michigan public health officials are urging people to exercise caution outdoors and avoid ticks, as lyme disease cases have nearly tripled in the last five years. -
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reviewed the environmental effects of constructing a tunnel, leaving the existing lines as they are or covering the dual lines with gravel and rock. -
Political and business leaders have been congregating on Mackinac Island this week to discuss state policy, but this afternoon about 150 people showed up to protest the Line 5 tunnel, ahead of Govenor Gretchen Whitmer's address at the policy conference. -
As the storm swept across northern-lower Michigan, more than an inch and a half of ice collected on tree branches, power lines, homes and vehicles. -
Five years after the Edenville Dam failure, around 60 dams in Michigan have received grants for repairs, but the state program, that oversees these projects, is running out of funds. -
Dam rebuilding is moving forward in Midland and Gladwin counties after a legal appeal against the project’s financing was denied, but some still say there needs to be a better way to fund these kinds of projects. -
A dam in northern Michigan will be rebuilt after the state and public spent more than two years scraping together money to fund the $1.7 million renovation. -
State and federal authorities are assessing damage to private property this week in 12 counties in northern Michigan. -
The Alpena Power Company filed a petition with the Michigan Public Service Commission, requesting the state board waive customer credits.
