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• USA Today Profile of Exelon CEO John Rowe - Pithy Examples of the "Bootleggers and Baptists" Alliance Working on Climate Change Legislation

  Yesterday, I shared by introduction to Dr. Bruce Yandle's "Bootleggers and Baptists" theory, which is aimed at trying to explain the often strange alignments of groups that support the imposition of prescriptive regulations. Here is the essence of the theory: Durable social regulation evolves when it is demanded by both of two distinctly different groups. "Baptists" point to... Posted Jan 25 2010, 05:15 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: John Rowe, cap and trade, bootleggers and baptists

• Differences Between "Mr. Nuke" - John Rowe - and "Atomic Rod" Adams

  John Rowe, the man that Fortune Magazine once called "Mr. Nuke" in a May 15, 2006 article titled Meet Mr. Nuke and I have a few things in common. We were both given a copy of Richard Halliburton's Book of Marvels, a two volume set of travel books that divided the world into two areas, the Occident and the Orient. We both keep the books in our libraries. We each had two parents who were... Posted Dec 31 2009, 06:43 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, John Rowe

• Differing Perspectives on New Nuclear Power Driven Partially By Different Positions in Society

  During his appearance on Friday, October 30, 2009, John Rowe told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee believes that there is no market need to push the development of new nuclear power plants. He also stated that his staff has computed that power from new nuclear power plants can only be competitive in the market under conditions of a $75.00 per ton cost for carbon dioxide. Here is a... Posted Nov 01 2009, 06:54 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Exelon, John Rowe