Energy Summit

Protecting and creating opportunities for “low- and fixed-income communities and people of color”, and advocating on behalf of the interests of vulnerable communities was the subject of the Summit, Energy and Climate Change Summit: Implications and Economic Opportunities, held by the American Association of Blacks in Energy and its partners (“the Stakeholders”) on January 28, 2010, at the Heritage Center of the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C. (the “Summit”).

The all-day Summit attracted an impressive list of Stakeholders and was attended by approximately 100 of the nation’s leading organizations representing civil rights and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s). Presentations were made by key public policy leaders such as House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn; Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, and Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy; and Chris Miller, Senior Policy Advisor, Energy and the Environment, Office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Summit organizers and sponsors included AABE, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, the Edison Electric Institute, and Eco-Capitol Policy Group, LLC.

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