Ties To Obama Aided In Access For Exelon Corporation

Utility's Close Ties To Obama Led To Better Access
BYRON, IL - FEBRUARY 17: Steam billows from the cooling towers at Exelon's nuclear power generating station February 17, 2006 in Byron, Illinois. Elevated levels of radioactive tritium have been found in water leaked from the facility as well as two other nuclear power generating facilities owned by Exelon in the state. Tritium has been linked to cancer and birth defects. Exelon operates nuclear power units at in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
BYRON, IL - FEBRUARY 17: Steam billows from the cooling towers at Exelon's nuclear power generating station February 17, 2006 in Byron, Illinois. Elevated levels of radioactive tritium have been found in water leaked from the facility as well as two other nuclear power generating facilities owned by Exelon in the state. Tritium has been linked to cancer and birth defects. Exelon operates nuclear power units at in Illinois, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Early in the Obama administration, a lobbyist for the Illinois-based energy producer Exelon Corporation proudly called it “the president’s utility.” And it was not just because it delivers power to Barack Obama’s Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago.

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