Could bills lead way to oil drilling in the Great Lakes?

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In 2002, with gasoline prices pushing $2 a gallon, environmentalists waged a campaign to declare the offshore bottomlands of the Great Lakes off limits to oil and gas exploration.

Now, with gasoline prices recently cresting at $3, they worry that efforts to open more areas to oil and gas exploration could undermine the state and federal protections for which they fought.

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