This is what’s being decided almost everywhere. And it’s only reasonable, you know.

Companies that have gone to the trouble and expense of bribing the White House, EPA, and state officials (notably the WV- DEP) should not have the additional bother of courting and bribing every county and local two-bit government that wants to protect its water or its citizens, should they?

Think how time-consuming and expensive that would be — and they’re already barely breaking even.

Mary Wildfire, Spencer, WV