Statement in Response to Greenpeace’s Mount Rushmore Action

A statement from Friends of the Earth President Brent Blackwelder supporting a Greenpeace action at Mount Rushmore and criticizing the Obama administration's lack of leadership and urgency regarding the global climate crisis.

• Friends of the Earth supports Greenpeace's banner action at Mount Rushmore, which aimed to highlight the absence of U.S. leadership in addressing the global climate crisis.
• Brent Blackwelder argues that President Obama's administration has not matched its public rhetoric on the climate crisis with its actions at international talks. Reports from Friends of the Earth International member groups suggest that U.S. negotiators at the Major Economies Forum and United Nations meetings have behaved similarly to the Bush administration by offering weak emissions targets and failing to provide climate finance to developing nations.
• The statement criticizes a bill passed by the House in June 2009 as being too weak to address climate destabilization and notes that it limits the President's power to regulate coal power plants via the Clean Air Act.

APA

Blackwelder, B. (2009). Statement in Response to Greenpeace’s Mount Rushmore Action. Friends of the Earth. https://foe.org/news/2009-07-statement-in-response-to-greenpeaces-mount-rushmore/

Chicago

Blackwelder, Brent. Statement in Response to Greenpeace’s Mount Rushmore Action. Friends of the Earth, 2009. https://foe.org/news/2009-07-statement-in-response-to-greenpeaces-mount-rushmore/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Blackwelder |first1=Brent |title=Statement in Response to Greenpeace’s Mount Rushmore Action |publisher=Friends of the Earth |date=8 July 2009 |url=https://foe.org/news/2009-07-statement-in-response-to-greenpeaces-mount-rushmore/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{blackwelder2009statement, author = {Blackwelder, Brent}, title = {{Statement in Response to Greenpeace’s Mount Rushmore Action}}, publisher = {Friends of the Earth}, year = {2009}, month = jul, url = {https://foe.org/news/2009-07-statement-in-response-to-greenpeaces-mount-rushmore/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }