Open government advocates say a long-pending Obama administration bid to revise a Clinton-era executive order (E.O.) to require more transparency and potentially lessen the White House's role in reviewing EPA and other agencies' rules appears dead, replaced by a narrower directive outlining transparency goals that had been expected as part of the revised E.O.rnIn a further disappointment for the advocates, the memo that is seen as replacing a revised order focuses on transparency of government actions and does not address White House review of agency rulemakings.
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