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The article offers information on the 78 environmental rules to be eliminated under the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump, including 11 rules reinstated following lawsuits and challenges. These rules include the limit of methane emissions on public lands, a ban on the hunting of predators in Alaskan wildlife refuges, and approval of the Keystone XL oil pipeline.

Reports that Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation shuffled authority for oil-spill prevention to Jeff Mach, a political appointee.

Focuses on the findings of the `Los Angeles Times' poll released in May 2001, which revealed the public's opinion on the environmental policies of the United States. Criticisms on the government's call to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska; Conflict on the connection between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming; Reaction from the Department of Energy on the matter.

Reports on the clashing opinions on the impact of expanding oil and gas drilling on Arctic frontier, Alaska's North Slope, which is the likely first environmental problem of the administration of United States President George W. Bush.