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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HB 5975 and HB 5976 seek to ban corporations from making political donations if they have or are seeking state government contracts. -
An independent audit confirmed other reports finding that DTE Energy and Consumers Energy have worse-than-average storm outage response track records. -
State submits bid for federal "hot spot" wildlife crossing funding to reduce wildlife/car collisions -
Four Michigan companies are getting federal grants through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to boost domestic the supply chain for advanced batteries. -
Oakland County's Water Resources Commissioner Jim Nash came out swinging in a heated press conference Wednesday against what he called false accusations by Macomb County Public Works Commissioner Candice Miller that his county is polluting Lake St. Clair with combined sewer overflows. -
The city of Detroit is launching "quick response teams" to help people with opioid addictions. Firefighters who respond to overdoses will make referrals to the teams. -
The Detroit Free Press says Detroit police officers conducted mass surveillance of hundreds of people involved in protests for years. Detroit Police Chief James White says the department does not do that, and any officers involved in such activity will be held accountable. -
Environmental groups say the planned transformation of the shuttered Karn coal plant site could become a model for dozens of coal plants across the Midwest as they, too, shut down. -
Wolverine Power Cooperative has been awarded a federal grant to subsidize costly electricity from the Palisades Nuclear Power plant in West Michigan — if it restarts. -
5 Lakes Energy says Michigan has capitalized on the clean energy investments in the federal Inflation Reduction Action more than most states in the nation.