columnist joe clemens believes he's been burned by president trump's burning desire to roll back regulations. >> they want to get rid of experts and scientists. by muzzling the scientists and the experts you take out the number one voices that are trying to stand up for the good of the american people, not industry. we're in the way, essentially, of their agenda. >> when president trump entered office, clemens was director of the policy office at the interior department. a main focus was helping to save alaskan villages from melting into the sea. scientists blame climate change. >> they're on spits of land, they're essentially land bars, locked into place by permafrost. over millennia they stay there.