The Office of Energy Justice and Equity at the U.S. Dept. of Energy held its second annual Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) Connect Summit April 17-18 at the SoCalGas Energy Resource Center in Downey, Calif.
Phil Washington grew up on the South Side of Chicago in public housing with a single mom caring for a family of six. “The people building infrastructure in my community did not look like me,” he says. “I wondered, ‘Why can’t I get a job helping to build my own community?’”
On $100-million city-funded Massachusetts project, the firms failed to accurately report participation of woman- and minority-owned businesses, state Attorney General Maura Healey alleged in a False Claims Act suit.
