Focus Taiwan
Date: 2017/12/11
By: Shih Hsiu-chuan

Taipei, Dec. 11 (CNA) The government on Monday proposed amendments that it hopes

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can address Taiwan’s poor air quality and reduce the frequency with which red air quality alerts that signal severe air pollution occur.

Dubbed the “14+N” strategy because it involves 14 measures and maybe more in the future, the proposed amendments to the Air Pollution Control Act are aimed at cutting Air Quality Index red alerts from 997 times in 2015 to 698 times in 2018 and 499 times in 2019, the government said.

The major change to existing regulations would be to address pollution “at its sources,” Tsai Hung-teh (蔡鴻德), director-general of the Environmental Protection Administration’s (EPA) Department of Air Quality Protection and Noise Control said at a press conference.
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