A Comparative Study Of Environmental Civil Public Interest Litigation Between China And The United States

Environmental problems have always been the eternal topic of human beings.Due to the increasingly serious environmental problems,environmental conflicts have emerged in the 21 st century.Environmental public interest litigation,as an effective way to solve environmental problems,has been widely used.This paper mainly through the comparative study of China and the United States to compare the environmental civil public interest litigation system.In the study of comparing the environmental civil public interest litigation systems of China and the United States,the theory and specific cases are combined to understand the application of environmental civil public interest litigation in judicial practice at a deeper level.Starting from the concept and theoretical basis of environmental civil public interest litigation in China and the United States,this paper analyzes the similarities and differences between the environmental civil public interest litigation systems in China and the United States by comparing the five aspects of the litigation subjects,the suitability of the defendants,the scope of litigation,the means of relief and liability,and the litigation costs.Environmental public interest litigation originated in the United States,the development of environmental public interest litigation system is relatively perfect.By comparing China's environmental civil public interest litigation system with America's environmental civil public interest litigation system,this paper aims to find out the deficiencies of China's environmental civil public interest litigation system.China urgently needs to establish a sound environmental public interest litigation system.China's environmental civil public interest litigation system can be improved from the following five aspects: improve the legal basis of China's environmental civil public interest litigation;To expand the scope of environmental protection organizations and promote their development through multiple channels;The subjects of prosecution should be diversified and the scope of prosecution of environmental civil public interest litigation should be expanded.To cultivate citizens' environmental awareness and encourage public participation;Improve the relief mechanism of environmental civil public interest litigation in China.China's environmental civil public interest litigation system should be integrated with China's socialist economic,political,cultural and social construction,and eventually form an environmental public interest litigation system in line with China's national conditions.