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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Environmental group disappointed by Elissa Slotkin's vote to eliminate California's emissions waiverMichigan Senator Elissa Slotkin was the sole Democrat who voted for a resolution eliminating a waiver that had allowed California to set its own emissions standards. -
BCBSM is cutting jobs in the face of rising health care costs and increasing utilization of health care services. -
The Michigan Public Service Commission is taking all 75 of the recommendations made by a third-party auditor to improve storm response by Consumers Energy and DTE Energy. -
Ann Arbor has launched a program to help residents develop habits to waste less food. -
Consumers Energy says it is continuing negotiations for potentially selling its 13 hydroelectric dams in Michigan. -
The Environmental Law and Policy Center says it successfully requested changes to a pipeline company's right-of-way renewal permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. -
Consumers Energy, which just began receiving $150 million from its last effort to raise rates, filed the largest rate hike request in about 20 years, for $436 million. -
Canadian wildfire smoke returns to Michigan for a brief time — with an advisory for sensitive groupsState meteorology specialists have issued an air quality advisory for sensitive groups due to particulate matter moving in to Michigan Friday night from Canadian wildfires. -
A pro-clean energy group says the U.S. House reconciliation budget bill would virtually halt industry development of large-scale solar, wind and battery storage projects in Michigan and the nation. -
Michigan was in the top third in the nation for opioid overdose deaths a decade ago; it's now in the bottom third. But experts fear deaths could rise once again if cuts to the federal budget and to Medicaid eligibility go through.