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 Radio as an intern, where she was promptly “bitten by the radio bug,” and never recovered.
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A federal trial is underway to decide if engineering firms that advised the city of Flint on water issues bear some responsibility for the water crisis. -
Residents of an Ann Arbor neighborhood have repealed a racist covenant that was still on their deeds despite being illegal. -
Advocates for changes to Michigan's sentencing laws are gathering signatures for a ballot initiative to repeal Truth in Sentencing. -
A coalition of Democratic state lawmakers and environmental groups are urging the US EPA to make the next round of clean car standards as strong as possible. -
Michigan’s system of care for severely injured car crash survivors is collapsing. Agencies that care for survivors with traumatic brain injuries and spinal cord injuries are being driven out of business by changes to Michigan’s no fault insurance law.Tracy Samilton met one of the many people who are now suffering tragic consequences. -
Another group is joining a coalition to change Michigan's auto no-fault law. -
State officials say Detroit is getting the nation's first wireless system to charge electric vehicles on the road. -
A new law allows insurance companies to pay caregiver agencies about half of what they used to get, and many are going broke. That means thousands are losing the care that they rely on to survive.
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Vehicles with partial automation -- like Teslas -- will be rated for the first time by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety starting later this year.
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Michigan's new no fault auto insurance law caused more than 15-hundred traumatically injured people to lose some or all of their medical care.
