Environmental law professor Amy Sinden of Temple's Beasley School of Law is one of the academics and activists who say there is "no chance" that President Obama will rework the executive policies carried over from his predecessor that tell agencies how to write regulations and outline a White House oversight role. Obama had raised expectations for major changes in his first weeks in office, when he requested recommendations for new executive orders on issues such as scientific integrity, public disclosure and regulatory review, touting them as part of a plan to make his administration "the most open and transparent in history."