Philip Radford

When was the last time you heard about Republicans and Democrats agreeing on something?

Recently, the Center for Public Integrity reported that on April 3, Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and Administrator of the Environmental...

Co-Authored by Phil Radford, Greenpeace and Sandy Buchanan, Ohio Citizen Action

Today, Duke...

Co-Authored by Phil Radford, Executive Director of Greenpeace USA and Aaron Viles, Deputy Director of Gulf Restoration Network

The BP disaster turns two this week. Two years since the nation was reminded that offshore drilling is dirty, dangerous, and deadly. Two years since the slow-motion disaster began changing...

Yesterday, in a small courtroom in Alaska, David met Goliath once again. Greenpeace USA's small team of lawyers came face to face with representatives from Shell, the multinational oil company seeking one of the broadest legal injunctions ever sought against an entirely peaceful environmental group. The judge's decision will resonate...

Earlier this week, Edison International announced that they would shut down the Fisk and Crawford coal plants -- a victory for the books! After ten years of gritty and determined...

Right now, Greenpeace's new Rainbow Warrior, our flagship, is docked in Southport, NC -- smack in the center of Duke Energy's domain.

Our activists have just descended from the 400-ft smokestack of Progress's Asheville Generating Station and been arrested. Progress Energy and Duke...

TransCanada has some explaining to do.

Greenpeace just sent a letter to TransCanada's CEO, Russ Girling, as well as to the company's board of directors asking for complete documentation of how it came to its inflated conclusions on Keystone XL pipeline jobs here in the U.S.

We...

President Obama stood up to Big Oil and its puppets in Congress and denied a permit for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline yesterday. This is encouraging news for the communities whose air and water would have been directly threatened by this pipeline, from...

It's not surprising that the American Petroleum Institute -- Big Oil's premium lobbying entity -- is using a synthetic media strategy. Their Vote 4 Energy astroturf campaign spews misinformation like a two-stroke engine belching greenhouse gasses. It attempts to portray 'real (cough cough) Americans' who are 'energy voters,' which translates...

It is a great day for the future of the IT sector.

Facebook announced today that they will be working with Greenpeace to move everyone closer to a world powered by clean and renewable energy and to, "use the Facebook platform to engage people on energy and...

Yesterday, President Obama's staff held a hearing on their proposed 5 year oil leasing plan. A plan that would open up drilling in the Arctic. I was there with Cindy Shogan of Alaska Wilderness League, rallying people to urge the president...

One of the world's biggest toy makers is no longer playing around when it comes to deforestation.

In June, Greenpeace research showed that many popular toys -- like Barbie dolls and Transformers -- were being wrapped in paper packaging linked to rainforest destruction. Our investigations showed paper from...

This week, Bloomberg published a detailed expose: Koch Brothers Flout Law Getting Richer With Secret Iran Sales, revealing a startling array of allegations about Koch Industries bribing government officials around the world and doing business with Iran. The Koch Brothers' contempt for the communities and workers impacted by...

While Obama's jobs speech is being framed as a turning point for his tenure as president, there is another job I would respectively suggest he concentrate on: protecting the lives of America's children.

Here's a quick video ad that I think gets right to point:

Late last week, the president blocked reforms to the Environmental Protection Agency's plans to improve pollution measures to protect Americans against the harmful effects of toxic ozone smog. The president chose to side with big corporate polluters instead of with the 12,000 Americans that, according to the EPA, would have been saved by these proposed updates to pollution controls. Obama also chose to side with the big polluting industries instead of with the estimated 24 million men, women and children suffering from asthma in this country who are forced to suffer even more because of heightened smog levels.

The decision outraged his biggest backers in the Democratic Party. Barbara Boxer, Chairwoman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that environmentalists should sue the Obama administration over the decision: "I hope they'll be sued in court and I hope the court can stand by the Clean Air Act."

On Friday, when the Obama announcement was made, top Democrat Congressman Ed Markey who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee said:

"I am disappointed that the president chose to further delay important clean air protections that would have helped to prevent respiratory and cardiac disease in thousands of Americans."

Obama needs to be reminded that come November he will be counting on people who care about the environment and the health of their families and loved ones, not just for votes but for volunteer hours and everything else that he needs from them to win his campaign.

This decision is all about politics and that's just sickening. There is still hope. The president just needs to do his job and start protecting us from ozone pollution -- much of which comes from coal-fired power plants -- and stop doing the dirty work of the big corporate...

Corporate polluters don't have to worry about dismantling the Clean Air Act, it appears that President Obama is doing it for them.

As Americans prepare for the holiday weekend, President Obama has announced that he doesn’t plan on enforcing a law that would have prevented 12,000 deaths every year...

This week, President Obama will find hundreds more people in front of the White House -- us included -- willing to go to jail for peacefully protesting the President's short-sighted decision to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. President...

Michael Silberman, the brain behind the "Meetup" grassroots organizing strategy used by Howard Dean's presidential campaign, and co-founder of digital consultancy EchoDitto, is joining Greenpeace to launch a new, global digital mobilization lab. The lab will be a dynamic, forward-looking space that...

Today is a historic day in Germany and for green energy world wide. The German Parliament has made a precedent setting move -- not only have they set a plan to phase out all nuclear by 2022, but the Parliament...

Top decision makers in Washington seem to have forgotten that "natural" gas is a fossil fuel, with some of the same damning negatives as coal and oil.

For instance, unlike renewables, "natural" gas is an energy source we will exhaust -- possibly...