SUPER Act of 2015

Super Pollutant Emissions Reduction Act of 2015 or the SUPER Act of 2015

This bill requires the President to establish the Task Force on Super Pollutants to:

• review existing and potential policies and measures that promote the reduction of short-lived climate pollutants, in part by identifying and evaluating programs and activities of the federal government that contribute to a reduction;
• identify and recommend specific federal programs and activities that are duplicative and that can be consolidated to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness;
• identify gaps where programs do not exist and recommend programs and activities to fill these gaps to reduce short-lived climate pollutants, with an emphasis on industry standards and public-private partnerships;
• identify, compile, evaluate, and develop best practices for reducing short-lived climate pollutants; and
• report to Congress on its findings and recommendations.

A "short-lived climate pollutant" is black carbon, methane, hydrofluorocarbons, tropospheric ozone and its precursors, or emissions from banks of ozone-depleting substances.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov