Chang Kow-lung | |
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張國龍 | |
Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration | |
In office 8 June 2005 – 20 May 2007 | |
Preceded by |
Chang Juu-en Tsay Ting-kuei (acting) |
Succeeded by | Winston Dang |
Personal details | |
Born | 1938 (age 85–86) |
Nationality | Taiwanese |
Alma mater | Yale University |
Chang Kow-lung ( Chinese: 張國蘢; born 1938) is a Taiwanese environmentalist who served as the Minister of the Environmental Protection Administration between 2005 and 2007.
Chang graduated from Yale University in 1968 with a Ph.D. in physics. He then taught at National Taiwan University starting in 1976 and participated in Taiwan's environmental movement beginning in the 1980s. In 1988, Chang founded a magazine, New Environment. Shortly afterwards, in 1990, he launched the Taiwan Environmental Protection Union. That year, he became a secretary in the Taipei City Government, where he worked for ten years. In 2000, Chang was named vice minister of examinations. [1] [2]
A noted anti-nuclear activist, [3] Chang has served as spokesman for the Nuke-4 Referendum Initiative Association. [4]
Premier Frank Hsieh appointed Chang Kow-lung head of the Environmental Protection Administration on 8 June 2005. [5] That August, Chang announced a three-year plan to clean up the polluted Tamsui River. [6] The next month, Chang ordered sanitation companies to stop gathering kitchen waste to use as a component in pig feed, after discussions with the Council of Agriculture. [7] He also worked to pass laws regarding greenhouse gas emissions, [8] [9] [10] later starting a global warming awareness initiative. [11] Chang supported implementation of an ecotax for Taiwanese factories in 2006. [12] However, the next year, environmentalist Robin Winkler claimed that the EPA favored industry over the environment. [13] Chang then tried to sue Winkler for slandering the EPA. [14] Chang resigned his position in May 2007, [15] and was replaced by Winston Dang in June. [16]