从美国环境公益诉讼制度谈中国环境保护问题的法律对策

近年来,我国环境恶化趋势仍在继续,有关环境公益受损的案例层出不穷。通过介绍美国环境公益诉讼制度,分析我国引进这一制度的必要性和可能性,提出只有从放宽起诉资格、拓展提起环境公益诉讼的途径、建立有利于原告的诉讼费用承担机制几方面着手,才能逐步推动我国环境公益诉讼制度的尽快建立,这是目前解决中国环境保护问题最好的法律对策。

On the Legal Countermeasures of China's Environmental Protection and the Introduction of American Environmental Public Litigation System

In recent years,China's environmental deterioration still continues,and the environmental damages to the public interest follow one after another.By introducing American environmental public litigation system,and analyzing necessity and possibility of introduction of the system into China,the authors state that China will gradually advance the establishment of environmental public litigation system as soon as possible,only from lowering standing to sue,expanding channels to file a suit for environmental public interests,and establishing a litigation expense bearing mechanism beneficial to the plaintiff,which is now the best legal response to solve the problem of environmental protection in China.