New Greenpeace Chief to Tap Grass Roots in Climate-Bill Push

Phil Radford, the newly named executive director of Greenpeace USA, said the environmental organization will focus on organizing Congressional districts and neighborhoods to press for passage of climate-change legislation rather than spending time directly on Capitol Hill, Greenwire reports.

Mr. Radford, who served as Greenpeace’s grass-roots director before his promotion this week, said the group’s Washington lobbying will grow, but its main goal is to “take it back home to the districts and mobilize people … so that Congress is hearing from more people than just the coal companies” on a climate bill.

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