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Here are the latest editorials on pressing environmental issues from publications across the state. Elected officials are always watching the opinion pages in newspapers for important and influential editorials, and we are, too! You can count on us to keep you up to speed.

Hands Set to Give Great Lakes a Big Hug

Have you hugged a Great Lake today? How about an inland lake? People in Michigan and across the U.S. are coming together on Saturday, June 26, for "Hands Across the Sand." It's a 2010 version of "Hands Across America," and a Florida-organized protest against offshore drilling. Numerous Michigan communities have organized events. 

New York Times' Friedman to Obama: Use BP Oil Spill like 9/11, Only Better than Bush Did

In a recent op-ed in The New York Times, columnist Thomas Friedman suggests that thus far the president's handling of the worst oil spill in history, tragically still unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico, has not been adequate.