Spring rains having arrived later than usual, Taiwan faces its gravest water shortage in seven years. Meanwhile, poor harvests around the world have caused food prices to soar. As if the 2008 globa…..

Recent Government responses to articles and blogs opposing the construction of a new Kuokuang Petrochemical plant are a little disconcerting.

One Cabinet member simply brushed aside what …..

The first phase of the environmental impact assessment process for planned improvements to the Suhua Highway, which runs along the east coast from Suao (蘇澳) to Hualien (花蓮), was passed after just 1…..

I read in the papers the other day that Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Wu Yu-sheng (吳育昇) has proposed a revision to the Environmental Impact Assessment Act (環境影響評估法). This revision prop…..

Not long after the Formosa Plastics Group’s (FPG) chemical plant in Kaohsiung County’s Renwu Township (仁武) was found to have polluted surrounding farmland, FPG’s sixth naphtha cra…..