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While welcoming Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s (TSMC) expansion, environmental campaigners yesterday called on the Central Taiwan Science Park Administration in Taichung to raise the proportion of renewable energy use at the park by 10 percent each year to reach 100 percent by 2030.
TSMC has applied for a phase 6 expansion plan for its facility in Taichung to build a 2-nanometer fab, which is to undergo a second phase of environmental impact assessment next month after being required to submit more documents, Air Clean Taiwan executive secretary Chao Hui-lin (趙慧琳) said.
“We represent many mothers with their families in Taichung, and we
Rules to control air pollution from steelmakers in Taichung would be the strictest in Taiwan, the city said on Tuesday.
The latest proposed ordinances marked the third time the Taichung City Government is to bolster environmental regulations for the steel industry, which is the second-biggest contributor to air pollution in its jurisdiction, Taichung Environmental Protection Bureau Director Chen Hung-yi (陳宏益) said in a news release.
The regulations which Taichung previewed on June 9 have been submitted to the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) for approval, Chen said, adding that the city aims to promulgate them before the end of the year.
The
Taichung, March 7 (CNA) A fire in a Taichung apartment building on Sunday that left six residents dead and six injured was complicated by clutter in stairwells that made firefighters' jobs harder and may have boxed in residents, according to the city's fire department.