Since the promotion of Taiwan’s industrialization in the 1950’s, the resulting environmental pollution and damage has reached a serious level in the 1970’s. Taiwan’s environmental protection awareness began to spur in the late 1970’s. The domestic increase of environmental protection awareness and rising anti-nuisance campaigns induced the Executive Yuan to upgrade the Department of Health, Environmental Protection Agency into the Environmental Protection Administration Executive Yuan on August 22, 1987, empowering it with the job of pollution-prevention in Taiwan. 26 years ago, under the high-expectations of the citizens, the Executive Yuan established Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), responsible for anti-nuisance-related operations. During this period of time, Taiwan experienced a change never seen before ranging from mountains to plains, and even covering the ocean. This project examines environmental policies from the past 26 years, primarily policies that were related to the public, drew media and public concern, the development of environmental policies, the establishment of departments and units, and change in legislations that created great impacts. Through questionnaire surveys and professional conferences, important policies were selected. The occurrence of these policies, the history and processing procedure, policy evolution, and department (unit) establishment were analyzed to understand the major influences of legislation change and environmental improvement. In addition, government official documents and related dissertations of the R.O.C were referenced, and 86 important figures were interviewed through oral history in order to grasp the policy development and produce the compilation content. The entire book contains five chapters: Blue sky, clear water, green mountains, and sustainability.

Environment policies, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA), Clean air, Clear water, Green mountains, Sustainability