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.
-
The Energy Department's conditional loans to DTE Energy and Consumers Energy are part of the Inflation Reduction Act - a law President elect Donald Trump says he wants to repeal. -
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says there could be people selling fake parking spaces, or issuing fake parking tickets that look very similar to the real thing. -
Only about a quarter of Michigan residents have gotten a flu shot this year — as flu season begins in earnest. -
Car industry analyst group Cox Automotive forecasts a 2.7% increase in new U.S. car sales, despite risk of incoming Trump administration policy changes that could affect the economy. -
Fewer people are getting their annual flu and COVID vaccinations in Michigan. Michigan's Chief Medical Executive, Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian, joined Michigan Public's Tracy Samilton for a Q and A about why she thinks that's happening, and why it's a trend we should try to change. -
Northern Michigan University to get $27 million from federal "Rip and Replace" cybersecurity programNorthern Michigan University will receive $27 million to replace telecommunications equipment it purchased from Chinese manufacturers that is now considered a security risk. -
A federal district judge has approved the Ohio EPA's request to be added as a defendant in a lawsuit alleging that the Ohio EPA and the U.S. EPA devised a defective program to control phosphorus flowing into Lake Erie, a chief cause of harmful cyanobacterial blooms in the Great Lake. -
A state mortgage program that helps low and moderate income households has limited the amount of the mortgage applicants can receive since 2009 — all while housing prices have risen. Legislation headed to the governor's desk would change that situation. -
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.
