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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday
December 15, 2006
-- MBRT Joins
Energy Coalition to Formulate
Sound Energy Policy
Washington, D.C. – MBRT
joined in the launch of
The Energy Initiative
Coalition, under the leadership
of former Senator John
Breaux of Louisiana and
former Mayor Beverly O’Neill
of Long Beach, California
with representatives of
31 trade association member
organizations. “This is
the first time that a
coalition of minority
businesses represented
by MBRT, energy consumers,
corporations and energy
producers, have come together
educate the public and
make recommendations for
America’s energy challenges”
said Roger A. Campos,
President & CEO.
“Washington needs a different
type of coalition, not
just another coalition…”
said former Senator John
Breaux. “Washington doesn’t
need another energy group,
but it needs a different
energy initiative. And
that’s what separates
this one from the rest.”
“Solving our country’s
issues of over-consumption
of energy and excessive
dependence on oil by discovering
new solutions for more
efficient and environmentally
friendly energy policies
is critical to consumers
and sustaining business
growth while enhancing
the quality of life for
our communities,” said
Campos.
The
primary goal of this coalition
is to formulate ideas
for a sound energy policy
through the cooperation
and consensus of the energy
producers, energy consumers,
and environmental groups.
The Minority Business
RoundTable, the only member
organization representing
minority owned businesses
of the coalition, will
be in a working group
charged with reviewing
the major challenges,
current policy impediments,
market restraints and
other barriers in addressing
its responsibility to
work toward developing
policy recommendations
for consideration by the
full membership. The Energy
Initiative will be considering
a broad range of recommendations
such as research in alternative
energy, grants, contracts,
tax and other incentives
to promote renewable energy
and conservation. Over
the next year, the group
will be submitting its
findings to the American
public.
About
the Minority Business
RoundTable:
The
Minority Business RoundTable
is the only national non-profit
organization for CEOs
of the nation's leading
African-American, Asian-American,
Hispanic-American, Native-American
and other minority-owned
businesses. Its members
analyze and help formulate
effective public policies
that impact minority-owned
business. MBRT charter
member firms earned gross
sales from $53 million
to more than $5 billion
per company and employs
between 80 and 4,000 people.
The Minority Business
RoundTable is proud to
have Aerotek, Inc., one
of the nation's leading
provider of personnel
services, the Business
Roundtable, an association
of chief executive officers
of the country's leading
corporations, the Kauffman
Foundation, U.S. Department
of Energy, U.S. Small
Business Administration,
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, U.S. Department
of Labor and other federal
agencies as strategic
partners. For more
information on the Minority
Business RoundTable, please
visit www.mbrt.net.
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NEWS RELEASE
Minority Business Roundtable
1629 K Street
Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20006
Contact: Roger A Campos
President & CEO
Minority Business Roundtable
202-289-8881
rogercampos@mbrt.net
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