I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7250 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to 
conduct a study on black carbon emissions and to reduce global black 
carbon emissions. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 2, 2008 
Mr. INSLEE (for himself, Mr. WAXMAN, Mr. HONDA, and Mr. OLVER) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy 
and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Foreign Affairs 
and Science and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protec-
tion Agency to conduct a study on black carbon emis-
sions and to reduce global black carbon emissions. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Arctic Climate Preser-
vation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Black carbon is a particulate pollutant that 
contributes significantly to warming of the Earth’s 
climate system by converting solar radiation to heat, 
which is released into the atmosphere. Black carbon 
has a particularly detrimental impact on the Arctic 
by reducing surface reflectivity and accelerating 
melting when it settles on snow or ice surfaces. The 
atmospheric residence of black carbon is less than 2 
weeks, making this pollutant an important candidate 
for immediate policy action to mitigate adverse cli-
mate effects. 
(2) Through various clean air programs, the 
United States has reduced much of its black carbon 
pollution, though more could be done by govern-
ments to help spur technological innovation and en-
ergy technology deployment in countries where 
major black carbon pollution still occurs through in-
dustrial activities, agriculture and forestry practices, 
and residential cooking with high pollution fuels. 
(3) Black carbon is a serious threat to public 
health and reductions in black carbon will produce 
immediate public health benefits. 
(4) Black carbon is a component of particulate 
matter regulated under the Clean Air Act, however 
it is not explicitly regulated as a global warming 
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agent under United States law or by the United Na-
tions Framework Convention on Climate Change or 
other international instruments. 
(5) United States foreign policies and assist-
ance programs, as well as directions to multilateral 
lending organizations such as the World Bank, 
Inter-American Development Bank, and other re-
gional development banks, possess the potential to 
significantly reduce black carbon pollution globally. 
(6) Taking immediate cost-effective and techno-
logically feasible action to protect the Arctic, espe-
cially by significantly reducing black carbon pollu-
tion, will protect an ecosystem under imminent 
threat due to global warming. 
SEC. 3. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are— 
(1) to immediately identify cost-effective ways 
to reduce black carbon pollution, both in the United 
States and internationally, to stem and reverse the 
melting of Arctic Sea ice, as well as contribute to re-
ducing the rate of global warming; and 
(2) to establish the United States as a leader 
in protecting the Arctic environment. 
SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS. 
As used in this Act: 
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(1) The term ‘‘Administrator’’ means the Ad-
ministrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. 
(2) The term ‘‘black carbon’’ means the strong-
ly light absorbing component of carbonaceous 
aerosols. 
(3) The term ‘‘organic carbon’’ means the com-
ponents of carbonaceous aerosols that are not 
strongly light-absorbing. 
(4) The term ‘‘person’’ means any individual, 
corporation, partnership, trust, association, or any 
other private entity, or any officer, employee, agent, 
department, or instrumentality of the Federal Gov-
ernment or of any State, municipality, or political 
subdivision of a State, or of any foreign government, 
any State, municipality, or political subdivision of a 
State, or any other entity subject to the jurisdiction 
of the United States. 
SEC. 5. BLACK CARBON ABATEMENT STUDY. 
(a) STUDY.—The Administrator shall conduct a 
study of black carbon and organic carbon emissions in 
consultation with the Administrator of the National Oce-
anic and Atmospheric Administration, the Administrator 
of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
the Administrator of the United States Agency for Inter-
national Development, the Chief of the United States For-
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est Service, the Secretary of the Interior, and other agen-
cies, as appropriate. The study shall include each of the 
following: 
(1) A summary of the research that has been 
conducted that identifies— 
(A) an inventory of the major sources of 
black carbon and organic carbon emissions in 
the United States and throughout the world, in-
cluding an estimate of the quantity of current 
and projected future emissions, and the net cli-
mate effects of the emissions from those 
sources; 
(B) effective and cost-effective control 
technologies, operations, or strategies for addi-
tional domestic and international black carbon 
reductions, including the lifecycle climate im-
pacts of installation or implementation of emis-
sion control technologies, operations, or strate-
gies, such as diesel particulate filters on exist-
ing on-road and off-road engines, and including 
consideration of emissions from residential 
cookstoves, forest burning, and other agri-
culture-based burning; 
(C) potential metrics quantifying the net 
radiative forcing, warming, or other climatic ef-
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