2015年1月1日,被称为“史上最严”的新修订的环境保护法正式实施。2015年1月7日,最高人民法院制定的《关于审理环境民事公益诉讼案件适用法律若干问题的解释》正式实施。新修订的环境保护法作为环保基础法律,从行政管理到公民权利义务都有极大的扩展性规定,在环境保护诉讼方面更是在梳理近年诉讼实践的基础上有了突破性的规定。而最高法院的该司法解释,对修改后的《环境保护法》以及 January 1, 2015, known as the “most stringent in history,” the newly revised Environmental Protection Act into effect. On January 7, 2015, the Supreme People’s Court enacted the “Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Cases of Environmental Civil Public Interest Litigation”. The newly revised Environmental Protection Law, as the basic law of environmental protection, has great expansibility provisions from the administration to the civil rights and obligations. In the aspect of environmental protection litigation, it has made breakthroughs in combing the litigation practice in recent years. And the Supreme Court’s judicial interpretation of the revised “Environmental Protection Act” as well