一、引言随着公民生活水平和环保意识的提高,热心于环境保护的公民和社会团体越来越多。在这种背景下,法律必须为公民和社会团体参与环境保护提供制度通道,以引导有序的公众参与,化解社会矛盾,疏导不稳定因素,使建设和谐社会的目标在法制的框架下得以顺利实现。环境公益诉讼无疑就是这样一种制度通道。实践中,自进入21世纪以来,我国的各级法院已经受理了一些环境公益诉讼案件。尤 I. INTRODUCTION With the improvement of citizens’ living standards and environmental awareness, more and more citizens and social organizations are enthusiastic about environmental protection. In this context, the law must provide institutional channels for citizens and social organizations to participate in environmental protection so as to guide orderly public participation, resolve social conflicts and ease instability so that the goal of building a harmonious society can be smoothly managed within the framework of the legal system achieve. Environmental public interest litigation is undoubtedly such a system of channels. In practice, since entering the 21st century, courts at all levels in our country have accepted some cases of environmental public interest litigation. especially