The Right hated expanding the Endangered Species Act, bitched about restricting off-shore dumping, didn't care to stop atmo nuke testing and only accepted it as part of a Treaty with the Soviets grudgingly, doubted the ozone hole even existed, didn't like expanding Nat'l Parks (saw it as Fed landgrab), and didn't say shit about the shark overfishing from what I remember.And how many of those had bipartisan support? Or in the case of oil drilling in Anwar were a huge mistake?
Also, drilling in ANWAR was killed, multiple times, because it endangered habitat that was already threatened elsewhere by the other permitted drilling ops on the North Slope, and horizontal drilling cannot go more than a few miles from the wellhead. ANWAR was put aside because there was drilling in a lot of the rest of the Alaskan Arctic already.