Tracy Samilton
Energy and Transportation Reporter / ProducerTracy Samilton covers energy and transportation, including the auto industry and the business response to climate change for Michigan Public. She began her career at Michigan Public as an intern, where she was promptly “bitten by the radio bug,” and never recovered.
She took over the auto beat in January, 2009, just a few months before Chrysler and General Motors filed for bankruptcy.
Tracy’s reports can frequently be heard on Morning Edition and All Things Considered, as well as on Michigan Public.
Her coverage of Michigan’s Detroit Three automakers has taken her as far as Germany, and China. Tracy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in English Literature.
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Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a package of bills that includes one that would expand eligibility for MEAP, a state program that helps low income households pay for heating bills. -
Detroit-based Rocket Mortgage has sued the U.S. Justice Department - after the DOJ named Rocket Mortgage in a racial discrimination lawsuit based on a mortage refinance application by a black customer. -
A bill introduced in the state House would require commercial health insurance plans to cover long-term treatment for brain injuries from falls, strokes, and diseases, without annual or lifetime caps. -
Consumers Energy says it will have 400 MW of battery energy storage once a new Washtenaw County electric battery storage facility is operational in 2027. -
Farms and other rural businesses in Michigan are slated to receive more than $22 million for clean energy projects under the USDA's Rural Energy for American Program. -
Michigan's bottle deposit law would include many types of non-carbonated drink containers and require stores that take returns to accept all brands, if the bills pass and voters approve. -
HB 6056 would allow a new law that increases the state minimum wage to go into effect — just not for waiters and bartenders who receive much of their income from tips. -
Wellpath, the Michigan Department of Corrections' former provider of health care for inmates of state prisons, has not paid its subcontractors nearly $35 million dollars. -
Ann Arbor voters soundly rejected proposals C and D, which would have eliminated the city's primaries and partisan identification for candidates, and approved Proposal A, which sets up an optional renewable energy utility to supplement the energy from DTE Energy, and Proposal B, which renews the city's millage to maintain its extensive parks system. -
Across the state voters will decide what their communities should do with marijuana sales, school or library funding, public safety, elections, energy, and more.
