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Focuses on the environmental agenda of U.S. President George W. Bush's Administration and the Republican Party after Bush's re-election. Proposals to revamp laws on air pollution and endangered species; Energy bill to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to energy exploration; Emphasis of the administration's environmental conservation efforts.

Examines the environmental policy of the United States President George W. Bush administration. Similarity of Bush's approach to that of former President Ronald Reagan's; Efforts to tie environmental protection to other goals, such as economic growth and increased energy production; Role of regulation in implementing these policies; Overview of major changes in the areas of air, water, land, energy and global climate; Policy shapers; Criticism of regulations. INSET: Policy Shapers, Well Known and Little Known.

Reports that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush announced changes that would loosen industrial air pollution rules. Statement from the administration that the initiatives would encourage plant improvements that would clean the air; Criticism of the changes by environmentalists, Democrats, and Republicans; Plans from attorneys general in six states to sue; Description of how an assistant administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made the announcement; Written statement by EPA administrator Christie Whitman; Specifics of the changes; Implications of the policies for plants that are exempt from the 1977 Clean Air Act; Application of the rules at industrial plants, oil refineries and manufacturing plants.