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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The state of Michigan will invest $7.5 million in seed money in looking for deposits of geologic hydrogen. The carbon-free gas can be formed deep underground under the right conditions, and those conditions may exist in Michigan. -
The city of Detroit and Wayne County are renewing a program that helps Detroit homeowners pay delinquent property taxes and avoid foreclosure. -
The city of Ann Arbor, and its clerk, Jacqueline Beaudry, are being sued by a DTE Energy-funded group over Beaudry's certification of petitions to place a ballot question on the November ballot and begin the process of creating a city-owned electric utility. -
The Anderson Economic Group has updated its initial analysis of economic damages from an extended period of wildfire smoke from Canada, estimating a total loss in 10 states of more than $38 billion. -
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved a permit for Enbridge to build a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac, to house a section of pipeline to replace the current Line 5 twin pipelines that are lying on the lakebed. It's a notable step in the process of building the controversial tunnel. -
The Michigan Public Service Commission is taking comments on a proposal that could set the stage for later incentives or penalties for electric utilities. -
Washtenaw County Commissioner and former state Representative Yousef Rabhi has handily defeated incumbent progressive Chris Taylor, Ann Arbor's mayor for 12 years. -
The Red Cross says this is only the second time in its history that it has issued an emergency appeal for blood donors. -
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has updated a list of the vehicles associated with the highest rate of fatalities for drivers. -
Ann Arbor's primary election faceoff between long-tenured incumbent mayor Chris Taylor and repeat challenger Democratic Socialist Yousef Rabhi could be a close election, symbolizing either a rebuke or a favorable nod to dramatic changes in Ann Arbor since Taylor first took office.
