Greenpeace in Turmoil as Debate Over Climate, Energy Policy Heats Up
By Evan Lips | dcjournal.com
After years of aggressively opposing expanded fossil fuel production and advocating for Green New Deal policies, Vice President Kamala Harris — the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee — dispatched a campaign spokesperson to say the California Democrat will no longer support a fracking ban.
It’s the sort of reversal likely to inspire backlash from prominent environmental groups like Greenpeace. But that organization is currently distracted by turmoil within its own leadership.
At Greenpeace USA, Ebony Twilley Martin, the organization’s first ever woman of color to serve as solo executive director is out, embroiled in an internal leadership struggle over the organization’s handling of a lawsuit.
In a statement to InsideSources, Liz Gilchrist, Board Chair of Greenpeace Fund, and Jakada Imani, Board Chair of Greenpeace Inc., say Twilley Martin “has transitioned from her role as executive director of the Greenpeace organizations in the U.S.
