The United States hasn't yet ratified the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, so we have no internationally recognized claims in the Arctic.
How can the President forbid Arctic drilling within territories we don't control?
That's what I was thinking. And furthermore, any areas that Obama 'bans' will be wide open for the Russians and others to move in. Obama can't ban anything in the Arctic on a global level. All he can do, maybe, is prevent American companies from drilling there.
The same scenario applies to air pollution regulations. They only apply to, and they only cripple, American companies. The rest of the world takes advantage of stupid hippy Liberal crap like this. Because they don't give one damn about the American Liberal agenda. They do whatever they want to do.