To improve the air quality in Central Taiwan, EPA Minister Ying-Yuan Lee made a trip on 6 July 2016 to inspect open-air burning of rice straw and the control of fugitive dust from coal stacking sites. Considering that the rice crop of this year’s first cultivation is being harvested and that farmers are prone to burn the cut straw and ground stubble in open air, Minister Lee participated in the “Using Decomposing Bacteria for On-site Straw Reuse” demonstration event organized by the Environmental Protection Bureau of Changhua County. The event was aimed at showing farmers how they could expedite the decomposition of rice straw to fertilize their soil. The EPA has subsidized Changhua County to promote the use of decomposing bacteria since 2012, which has received high approval from farmers. Minister Lee urged farmers to make greater use of such bacteria instead of burning rice straw in open-air. To better understand fugitive dust control at the Taichung Coal-fired Power Plant and Dragon Steel’s open-air coal stacking sites, Minister Lee inspected these sites in person. Minister Lee was content upon learning that Dragon Steel was in the process of building an indoor stacking site. He also instructed that before the indoor stacking site was completed, proper measures must be taken to control fugitive dust.