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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An annual report by the Michigan Public Service Commission says the amount of power generated by renewable sources like wind and solar will more than double by 2030. -
Two major Michigan law firms have teamed up to represent patients who were allegedly sexually assaulted by a former Sinai Grace Hospital nurse. -
Ann Arbor has a system of 10 monitoring stations to provide hyper-local access to variations in air quality throughout the city. -
A handful of University of Michigan faculty comments about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk that drew strong criticism, but they won't be disciplined or fired. -
A handful of University of Michigan faculty comments about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk that drew strong criticism, but they won't be disciplined or fired.
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The Department of Natural Resources says there is a big risk of wildfires, due to the long stretch of sunny, dry days in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. -
Michigan utilities' average time to restore power to customers after outages was worst among all 50 states and the District of Columbia in 2023, according to the Citizens Utility Board of Michigan. -
EV sales will be robust in the final weeks of the federal tax credit, says an industry consulting group. -
The state says there were nearly 30% fewer cases of infectious syphilis in Michigan since 2021- but roughly the same number of infants have been born every year since then with congenital syphilis - passed on to the baby during the mother's pregnancy or labor. -
Bipartisan bills making it a criminal offense to create and distribute deepfake videos showing a real person in imagined sexual situations were signed into law by Governor Gretchen Whitmer this week.
