environmental public interest lawsuit 環境公益訴訟

A domestic environmental group has filed an environmental public interest lawsuit1 against Volkswagen over the company's cheating on emissions2 readings. It is the first public-interest lawsuit in China related to pollution from automobile3 exhaust.

國內環保團體就德國大眾汽車排放作弊事件提起環境公益訴訟。這是中國首例與機動車輛尾氣污染有關的公益訴訟案。

環境公益訴訟（environmental public interest lawsuit）即有關環境保護方面的公益性訴訟（public interest lawsuit/public interest litigation），是指因為自然人、法人、或其他組織的違法行為或不作為，使環境公共利益遭受侵害或馬上遭受侵害時，法律允許其他的法人、自然人或社會團體為維護公共利益而向人民法院提起的訴訟。