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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Ottawa County hopes to encourage local governments to change zoning regulations, so developers can build smaller, more affordable homes. -
General Motors has settled a case filed by the FTC, after a New York Times investigation found the automaker was selling driver behavior data to third parties without customers' consent. -
The cities of Farmington Hills, Farmington, and Southfield will hire sharpshooters to kill several hundred deer in a cull this month, as ecosystem damage and the number of deer-car collisions rise. -
How much could the next request for an electric rate hike cost you? Utilities will have to tell you.Regulated utilities including Consumers Energy and DTE Energy will have to issues notices after March 2026 about how much their rate increase requests would cost each customer. -
A former resident of Kalamazoo is suing the city for failing to address a public health hazard linked to hydrogen sulfide emissions from a city-owned water treatment plant. -
Lake Superior State University celebrated the 50th anniversary of its "Banished Words" list by issuing an extra list for banished words that just ... won't ... die. -
ITC Michigan, the state's high voltage transmission line company, says a new 50-mile power line that cuts across three counties will make the grid more reliable. -
Wineries say Northern Michigan township ignored offers to settle — so they're pursuing $50M judgmentAttorneys for 11 Northern Michigan wineries say their offers to negotiate a smaller settlement with Peninsula Township were ignored, so they're going to pursue a court's original $50 million judgment. -
Michigan's newly adopted transportation budget directs significantly more money to the state's roads and bridges. But the Citizens Research Council of Michigan says -
State officials issued a press release misstating information from a report on the effect of the 2019 auto no-fault law. The law was intended to lower car insurance rates for Michigan drivers.
