Viewpoint
12.14.17

Can Environmental Lawsuits in China Succeed?

Stanley Lubman

Air and water pollution are rising in China, and so is the number of lawsuits against polluters. Access to the courts is growing: Chinese prosecutors and some NGOs have been empowered to sue polluters, and activist lawyers increasingly...

Environment
08.24.17

Testing the Limits of China’s Environmental Law

from chinadialogue

Friends of Nature, a Beijing-based non-governmental organization (NGO), filed two landmark cases against a local Environmental Protection Bureau in Yunnan this year that have revealed the current limits of one of the most hopeful...

Sinica Podcast
11.30.16

The Intersection of Chinese Law and Politics

Kaiser Kuo, Jeremy Goldkorn & more
from Sinica Podcast

China’s legal system is much derided and poorly understood, but its development has, in many ways, been one of the defining features of the...

Environment
11.16.16

The Future of Public Interest Litigation in China

 from chinadialogue

China has seen a rapid growth in environmental public interest legal challenges since January 2015, when a revised version of the...

Environment
08.29.16

Environmental Law Blunted by Crippling Court Costs

 from chinadialogue

Zhenhua Ltd. is a glass-making firm based in Dezhou, a city in China’s northeastern Shandong province. The factory sits amid a cluster of modern residential areas, so when the company failed to limit its emissions of polluted air...

Caixin Media
12.09.15

Progress for NGOs Battling Polluters in Court

Two environmental groups have become the first non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China to win a lawsuit that champions nationwide battles against polluters on behalf of the public. A court in Nanping, a city in the...

Environment
06.25.15

Growing Pains for China’s New Environmental Courts

 from chinadialogue

In recent years, China has set up hundreds of new environmental courts as part of institutional reforms that aim to...

Environment
03.26.15

China Court to Hear NGO Lawsuit Targeting Polluter’s Profits

 from chinadialogue

An environmental group has filed a lawsuit for 30 million yuan (U.S.$4.8 million) to seek compensation from a Shandong chemical company for pumping out harmful substances—a legal action thought to be the first public interest litigation for air...