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HARRISBURG - Gov. Ed Rendell says it is "totally unacceptable" that state officials heard about a radiation leak at Three Mile Island in Dauphin County five hours after it was detected.

Radiation monitors sounded last night and again this morning inside Three Mile Island's Unit 1 containment building - the site of a small contamination incident just days earlier - but Exelon officials said they were false alarms.

Gov. Ed Rendell says it is "totally unacceptable" that state officials heard about a radiation incident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant five hours after it was detected.

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Robert Reid has been here before. The 77-year-old Mayor of Middletown, Dauphin County held the same title 30 years ago when Three Mile Island's Unit 2 nuclear reactor partially melted down and set off a panic that led to an evacuation order for all pregnant women and children in his community.

Employees Sent Home After Small Amount of Contamination Found Inside Three Mile Island Reactor Building No threat to public health and safety Londonderry Township, Pa.

Exelon Chairman and CEO John W. Rowe said that current legislative proposals on climate will minimize costs to consumers while addressing the imminent threat of global warming.

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Market mechanisms for cap-and-trade systems will drive down energy prices for U.S. consumers while addressing climate change, Exelon executives said.

An Exelon executive received an industry award for consistent leadership in partnering with minority and community banks.

Exelon CEO John Rowe was shopping with his wife in San Francisco when Rahm Emanuel e-mailed. Global warming legislation was due for a vote the next day in the U.S. House of Representatives , and Emanuel wanted Rowe to call several uncommitted Democrats .

Friday, November 13, 2009 Why did Apple & Nike quit the U.S Chamber? The Cascade Policy Institute has "the rest of the story": As it happens, Al Gore is a member of the board of Apple, and Apple's Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook, sits on the board of Nike.

It's widely assumed that if Congress fails to pass a clean energy bill, the EPA will step in with regulations on CO2 under the Clean Air Act .

A small business owner was denied entry into the U.S. Chamber of Commerce meeting today, despite having paid premium non-member admission.

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For a long time, electric utility companies had reputations for being boring yet safe stocks where even the most conservative investors could put their money.

Tool makers Stanley Works and Black & Decker Corp. are betting that together they can wring out more profit and better position themselves for a housing market recovery than they could apart.

Power company Dynegy is scheduled to report third-quarter earnings on Thursday. The following is a summary of key developments and analysis related to the period.

Point Carbon identified the winners and losers in a proposed cap-and-trade system for greenhouse gas emissions in the United States in its latest report Carbon Exposure unveiled on November 2, 2009 at its annual fall conference Carbon Market Insights Americas.

Climate change isn't going to be free. A report by Point Carbon , an independent consulting company that tracks global carbon and energy markets, estimates that U.S. climate legislation could push the price at the pump 13 cents a gallon higher.