2011年10月19日，云南曲靖市中级法院受理了民间环保组织自然之友等就曲靖铬渣污染事件提起的公益诉讼，被认为是我国环境公益诉讼的破冰之诉。我国已有11个省市(9省2市)成立了环保法庭。相对于环保法庭的普及程度，环境公益诉讼案件的受理依然步履维艰，各地环保法庭基本处于无案可审的窘境。为此，需要积极稳妥地推进环境公益诉讼立法，首先确定环境组织作为公益诉讼主体的法律资格。
On October 19,2011,the Intermediate Court of Qujing City,Yunnan Province accepted and heard the public-interest lawsuit filed by Friends of Nature and other non-governmental organizations on the Qujing chromic slag pollution incident. This lawsuit is considered the ice-breaking case of environmental litigation for public interest in China. Environmental Although environmental protection courts have been set up in 9 provinces and 2 municipalities in China,the acceptance and hearing of such lawsuits is still much less common,leaving most of these courts short of any case to hear. To solve this problem,related legislations should be initiated actively and properly by first identifying environmental protection organizations' judicial competency as the subject of action.
