In recent years, Kaohsiung City Government (KCG) has been actively promoting the goal of becoming an “eco-city”. After the KCG merged with the surrounding Kaohsiung County Government, the government's administrative area expanded to include the countryside and surrounding mountainous regions as well as the metropolitan area. The diverse natural landscapes in Kaohsiung now include mountains, hills,

Penghu, Taiwan, August 8, 2018 (TEIA)– Wind Turbine A-01 of Longmen (龍門) will be relocated 180 meters south-southwest of the original site proposed in Penghu Low Carbon Island Development (澎湖低碳島計畫) because it is bad for Feng Shui (風水) and has possible shadow flicker and noise pollution. Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (Taiwan EPA) has passed the relocation plan's preliminary review

Taipei, Taiwan, July 20, 2018 (TEIA)– Taichung Port is going to extend its current outer breakwaters further into the ocean to accommodate a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) import terminal proposed by Taiwan Power Company and Port of Taichung, Taiwan International Ports Corporation, Ltd. [1]. The proposed reclamation ground reaches 50 hectare in area and may have significant impacts to the environment

Taipei, Taiwan, July 26, 2018 (TEIA)– Starting Jan 1st, 2018, seven more types of businesses, such as beverage stores, bakeries, pharmacies, and bookstores, plus 80,000 regulated subjects, were added to Taiwan’s plastic ban policy. These vendors can no longer provide plastic bags for free. According to the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (Taiwan EPA), 60 warning tickets were given o

Taichung, Taiwan, July 26, 2018 (TEIA)– Yabu Pakaw (雅砆鈸告), lead singer of Snhy (信念樂團), not only sings well, he is also a green thumb. On his plantation, Yabu reserves a space for reintroducing and sustaining 10 or so subsistence food crops used by the Atayal people. He hopes to preserve not only the crops themselves, but also the indigenous knowledge involving them.“One day when climate change str

Taipei, Taiwan, July 12, 2018 (TEIA)– The largest scale amendments to Taiwan's Air Pollution Control Act (空氣汙染防制法) since 2002 were passed during Legislative Yuan's extraordinary session in the evening of June 25, 2018. The session featured a heated dispute on whether the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (Taiwan EPA) should jointly decide with or consult with the Ministry of Economic

Pingtung, Taiwan, June 28, 2018 (TEIA)– A decade-long debate on a development project within a valuable land crabs' habitat in Kenting National Park's (墾丁國家公園) Houwan Bay (後灣) has concluded. Executive Yuan has finalized the deal on swapping land ownership, specifically the exchange of government-owned land parcel for private-owned land parcel. In this land swap deal, the government offers the park

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 14, 2018 (TEIA)– The 37th Young Designers' Exhibition (YODEX) was unveiled May 25th at Taipei World Trade Center. Over 3,000 pieces of collaborative work were crafted by over 10,000 student participants. More than just to showcasing the designers' creativity, many reflected the designers' own stances on environmental issues - and even proposed solutions.This year's YODEX took

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 14, 2018 (TEIA)– In Taiwan, plastic garbage collected by local cleaning units can be classified into three categories: "regulated plastic containers", promulgated by the Taiwan Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) [1]; "miscellaneous plastics", which are mostly hard plastics; and "clean plastic bags".The versatile plastic garbage can be heated to high values and is ri

TAIPEI, Taiwan, January 9, 2017 (TEIA)– Factories illegally built on farms have become a massive threat to food safety in Taiwan. A recent survey shows that at least 60 percent of these factories are of high pollution potential. The Taiwanese government has pledged to tear down new structures and centrally manage old ones to save the farms.Illegal factories on the farm began to be seen in the 1970

TAIPEI, Taiwan, Oct 31, 2016 (TEIA) – Premier Lin Chuan's June order to power up the mothballed No. 1 reactor at the Jinshan Nuclear Power Plant in New Taipei City was prompted by a power shortage that was deliberately engineered by the state-owned Taiwan Power Company, Taipower, according to former national policy adviser Rex How.The facts were uncovered through an open data initiative by Taiwane

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 6, 2016 (TEIA) – Taiwan's first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, has pledged to develop a program that will integrate national land-use planning, regional development and environmental sustainability. But civic groups are concerned about her lack of strong commitment and lack of detail given to the public about her policies.President Tsai, who chairs the Democratic Progressive