Oregon Dept of Environmental Quality.

A minority of states have such a department with teeth, and the federal level EPA offloads work to them if they can be trusted (...to fuck over the state's citizens even worse than would the feds.)

Oregon is one of those states with a demographic which is favorable toward environmental excesses.  A bulk of the population lives in urban areas around Portland and Eugene, and this overpowering voting block gets a lot of what they want.  Pump a little Prozac into indoctrinated condo-dwellers and all kinds of unpleasant shit flows down-hill.

I really think that Oregon has more than it's share of active free-thinking individuals.  This from various observations of political history and meeting fellow Oregonians in my various points of living away from the state.  Perhaps it's the low fluoride levels...and at this point I'm only half-joking about it given the latest studies on the effects of this element on the human brain.  The trouble is that a 'free thinker' is free to think in a variety of directions, and propaganda is a powerful directing force.  Sadly, the metro areas of Oregon are one of the main centers of 'sustainability'.  For now at least.