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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.

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.

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

Leadership ignores call for action to slow regional warming

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…

Human health and climate threatened by soot

Newly strengthened group shoulders stewardship responsibilities

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…

Online chat with Earthjustice set for Tuesday morning

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