Greenpeace USA Executive Director Phil Radford was among 48 environmental leaders, social justice advocates and celebrities arrested in a non-violent protest at the White House in an action designed to ask President Obama to reject the Keystone XL Pipeline proposal to carry bitumous compounds from the Tar Sands development in Canada to refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. Radford joined with Michael Brune, director of the Sierra Club, in the first civil disobedience in the Sierra Club's 122-year history, as well as civil rights leader Julian Bond, 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben, NASA climate scientist James Hansen, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., actor Daryl Hannah and others. Each of the group was charged with failure to disperse and obey lawful orders, and released on $100 bond.