“A lot of our executive meetings were held at Don’s house, at his dining room table to be exact.”
—Friends of the Detroit River Chairman David Howell, in a Sept. 14 Detroit News article about MEC’s Petoskey Prize winner, Don A. Griffin

“At various points in our recent history, man’s ‘puny efforts’ were deemed incapable of: polluting the vast Great Lakes; destroying North America’s ‘inexhaustible’ forests; damaging the (now extinct) population of passenger pigeons; and having a deleterious effect on the quality of the air we breathe.”
—MEC’s Hugh McDiarmid Jr. in a Lansing State Journal letter to the editor response to a letter writer claiming man’s puny efforts couldn’t affect global climate change

“Every time you drill, you’re providing a conduit for contaminants to move through layers.”
—MEC’s James Clift in an Aug. 28 Detroit Free Press article
expressing concerns about a plan to drill for oil in Livonia

“I yelled, ‘No, please stop! What are you doing?’”
—MEC Health Policy Director Tess Karwoski, in an Ann Arbor News story about TruGreen ChemLawn’s mistaken application of pesticides to her lawn

“There’s a lot of waste in the system that we can squeeze out of it. If we don’t do that before we do anything else, we’re just wasting money.”
—MEC’s David Gard in an August Oakland Press article on the state’s energy grid