What struck the most discordant tone for me was the phrase "an aggressive EPA". I recalled an article my friend (and W. Virginia native) Rachel sent me several months ago, part of the NYT's series Toxic Waters. It's hard to walk away from the article thinking that the EPA shouldn't step up its "aggression", big-time, especially in West Virginia. In the past few years, the EPA stopped enforcing many Clean Water Act violations meant to protect people from water polluted with industrial chemicals.
West Virginia has many problems, but an over-zealous EPA certainly isn't one of them.