Word: exelon
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...unlikely combination of President John W. Rowe of Exelon Corporation, one of America’s largest electrical companies, speaking on the future of sustainable energy drew a packed audience in Science Center D yesterday afternoon...
...time. But as McCain was being slammed in the press, Republican opposition researchers - and some enterprising investigative reporters - were plotting an outrage backlash. Did it matter, for instance, that David Axelrod, Obama's political mastermind, had worked for a firm that led a public relations effort for Exelon, the utility giant? Would anyone notice that the man who helped convince Obama to run, former Senator Tom Daschle, works for a lobbying firm? Should voters care that former lobbyists also populate Obama's staff and current lobbyists offer him unpaid advice...
According to Exelon Associates, the company that analyzed the correlation between noise impact and fence height, increasing the height by six feet will cause the construction-related damage per second to decrease by three units...
...These [leaks] are at levels of radioactivity that you may be exposed to by simply walking the face of the earth," said Exelon spokesman Craig Nesbit, who added that the company welcomes any federal or state inspections. "But the 1998 spill was, clearly, improperly handled and it was a large wakeup call and kicked us into gear. Our sensitivity to the environmental effects of what we do and our sensitivity to the public's need to know, and right away, has evolved tremendously over the last couple of months...
...Government Accountability Office expressed misgivings about the industry's level of self-policing, saying that the NRC "in effect, relies on [plant operators] and trusts them to a large extent to make sure that their plants are operated safely." Residents of the Midwest might argue that companies like Exelon no longer deserve that trust...