Taiwan to raise fuel surcharges for air pollution control

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said Monday that it will increase a surcharge on diesel and gasoline by the end of 2017 to raise a fund that could accelerate the phasing out of older diesel trucks, one of the major mobile air pollution sources in Taiwan.

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