QUARRELSOME CLIMATE: A KMT legislator said that Premier William Lai had been misled about the potential health risks posed by stationary sources of pollution
Taipei Times
Date: May 26, 2018
By: Sean Lin / Staff reporter
Cross-caucus negotiations on the Cabinet’s proposed amendments to the Air Pollution
Legislative Speaker Su Jia-chyuan presides over a legislative session at the Legislative Yuan in Taipei yesterday. Photo: Wang Yi-sung, Taipei Times
Control Act (空氣汙染防制法) yesterday ended in a stalemate after lawmakers and Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) Minister Lee Ying-yuan (李應元) bickered over two crucial draft amendments that would determine rules on the trading of emission rights and the de facto governing agency for an emission cap on industries in Kaohsiung and Pingtung County.
The Legislative Yuan held a round of cross-caucus negotiations on five proposed amendments to the act, on which lawmakers had yet to reach a consensus.
Article 9 of the draft, which deals with the trading of emission rights between stationary and moving sources of air pollution, proposes that emissions cut from mobile sources — two-stroke scooters and old cars — be added to the quota for stationary emissions, which are mainly from industrial activity.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) lawmakers voiced objections, with KMT Legislator Arthur Chen (陳宜民) saying that Premier William Lai (賴清德) had been misled and underestimates the potential health risks posed by stationary sources of air pollution.
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