Focus Taiwan
Date: 2018/07/15
By: Hsu Hsiao-han and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 15 (CNA) Over 500 trucks and motorcycles blocked the road outside the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) and nearby streets Sunday to protest a recently passed amendment that would demand higher emission standards for vehicles.

Chanting slogans of “anti-discrimination” and “wanting to survive,” the protesters, mostly owners and drivers of aged diesel-fuel trucks, were angered by an EPA policy they said would lead to the elimination of vehicles produced 10 or more years ago.

“Old cars are innocent,” roared the protesters, gathered by the Left Party and a national self-help association of aged truck and motorcycle owners, saying they were strongly opposed to the practice of “forcible elimination.”

Among revisions to the Air Pollution Control Act passed on June 25 was one that said vehicles 10 years or older would be subject to stricter emission standards, without detailing the new standards that would apply or when they would be implemented.    [FULL  STORY]