Undoes Bush's bad policies

In the nascent days of his administration, the new president has used his executive authority to freeze not-yet-finalized Bush-era federal regulations, stopped plans to ease air pollution standards, and established a more open public-records policy. His top staffers' salaries have been frozen, and stricter lobbyist and gift rules have been issued.
Obama ordered the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, closed within a year.
...he signed the orders to close the controversial detainee camp and secret overseas prisons and ban the use of torture during detainee questioning.
Abortion rights activists are expecting the new president to reverse the so-called Mexico City policy, known as the "global gag rule," that restricts U.S. foreign aid to organizations — including the U.N. Population Fund — that "promote or perform" abortions.
And the administration is said to be looking at issuing an order that would stop a last-minute Bush proposal that would allow the expansion of offshore drilling in areas that have been previously banned, and to block the Interior Department's plan to develop oil shale fields largely found in Utah.
Shutters CIA prisons

President Barack Obama will close a secret network of CIA prisons immediately.