"This is the type of forward-thinking, sustainable and people-first transportation planning that local governments should embrace."

— MEC's Ben Stupka in a June 27 Ann Arbor News column
on the city's transit vision

"'Property rights' also extend to the millions of American citizens whose basements flood and whose lakes and streams are unfit for recreation because of the wholesale destruction of wetlands that used to serve as buffers against stormwater surges and pollution."

— MEC's Hugh McDiarmid Jr. in a June 30
Detroit News editorial rebuttal

"Continuing dependence on coal-fired power is great news for Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kentucky...places where they mine that coal, but it's not good for Michigan, which imports $20 billion annually in fossil fuels."

— MEC Energy Progam Director David Gard, urging better use of homegrown, renewable power during a July 18 radio talk show on Detroit's WCHB, AM 1200

"Experts and affected community representatives should roll up their sleeves and work out a plan for the elimination of harmful excess phosphorus in our waters."

— MEC President Lana Pollack, Detroit News OpEd, July 20