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Press Release: Victory March 29, 2012

Environmental Groups Welcome EPA Report on Black Carbon and Encourage Action

Following extensive advocacy by Earthjustice and allied groups, the EPA released a comprehensive, congressionally mandated report on the science of black carbon and climate change. The report points the way toward decisive action that must be taken to stop Arctic and planetary warming.

Black carbon warms twice over Arctic snow and ice—first in the atmosphere, absorbing incoming sunlight, and then again when it settles on ice and snow, accelerating melting.
(Michael Zysman / Shutterstock)
Article April 23, 2015

Strong U.S. Leadership Can Deliver on Black Carbon Reductions in the Arctic

When the U.S. assumes the chair of the Arctic Council this Friday, it will have an extraordinary opportunity to lead on reducing emissions of black carbon and methane.

Press Release February 10, 2009

Black Carbon Threatens World Heritage Sites

International groups ask UNESCO to take action at June meeting in Seville, Spain

Press Release April 23, 2013

Human Rights Petition to Reduce Black Carbon Emissions Urges Canada to Take Immediate Action

Arctic Athabaskan Council says rights violated by failure to slow rapid Arctic warming

Article September 24, 2013

Big Week for Black Carbon

Black carbon is the sooty, particulate pollution that reaches deep into your lungs and causes asthma and other respiratory and heart diseases. Black carbon also plays a major role in global warming—second to only carbon dioxide. Here’s a great introduction to black carbon that may spur you to action, and even make you smile. Termed…

Clouds over the Arctic Ocean. The Arctic is warming at twice the global average.
(Patrick Kelley / U.S. Geological Survey)
Press Release May 11, 2017

Arctic Council Advances Black Carbon Emission Reductions, Sidelines Paris Agreement

Earthjustice President Trip Van Noppen: “Council’s declaration ignores the urgency of implementing the Paris Agreement”

Press Release April 23, 2009

Strange Climate Bedfellows: Black Carbon Bill Unites Boxer, Kerry, Inhofe

At stopsoot.org, Earthjustice video urges U.S. leadership at Arctic summit

The Athabaskans rely on an intact Arctic ecosystem for their survival.
(Photo courtesy of the Athabaskan Arctic Council)
case April 23, 2013

Protecting Human Rights by Reducing Black Carbon Emissions to Slow Arctic Warming

For millennia, the Arctic has been the earth’s air conditioning—it cools warm air from the equator and in the process establishes wind and weather patterns. But black carbon pollution threatens this essential cooling system. Black carbon, which is emitted by diesel engines, gas flaring, biomass burning and other industrial practices, can travel great distances from…

Press Release May 15, 2013

Arctic Council Fails to Act on Black Carbon at Ministerial Meeting

Leadership ignores call for action to slow regional warming

Article April 24, 2013

Arctic Athabaskans Urge Black Carbon Reductions to Protect Homelands

Our homelands—the Arctic wildlife and ecosystems that are the foundation of our culture and traditional ways of life—are fast changing. Arctic warming has made the weather, the condition of the ice, and the behaviors and location of fish and wildlife so unpredictable that our Elders no longer feel confident teaching younger people traditional ways. If…

Article July 28, 2010

Black Carbon, Bigger Climate Problem Than We Knew?

Human health and climate threatened by soot

Press Release May 11, 2011

Oil Spill Prevention and Black Carbon Emissions Demand the Attention of Arctic Council

Newly strengthened group shoulders stewardship responsibilities

Arctic ice at Chukchi Sea, Alaska. The rapid melting of Arctic ice would raise sea levels and render low-lying areas such as Miami and New Orleans more vulnerable to coastal flooding.
(Photo by Florian Schulz / visionsofthewild.com)
video April 23, 2013

Teleconference: Black Carbon and Human Rights

On April 23, 2013, the Arctic Athabaskan Council filed a petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, asking the Commission to declare that Canada is undermining the human rights of Athabaskan peoples by poorly regulating emissions of black carbon, or soot, a short-lived climate pollutant which contributes significantly to Arctic warming and melting. Readily…

Article October 16, 2009

The Perils of Black Carbon—Let’s Talk

Online chat with Earthjustice set for Tuesday morning

Kumik is a high altitude village located in India's northern Ladakh region. High above the village, this melting glacier on Sultan Largo mountain provides the people who live here with their only source of water.
(Image courtesy of Jonathan Mingle)
Article July 1, 2015

Soot, Solidarity and Survival: A Conversation with Jonathan Mingle

Author Jonathan Mingle discusses his new book, Fire & Ice, the powerful particle, black carbon, and climate change around the world.

Document February 6, 2013

AC Chair Summary on Black Carbon