Research On Legal Issues Of Public Participation In Environmental Protection

As China's economy continues to develop and industries continue to rise,environmental problems are gradually exposed.Especially in the 21 st century,environmental problems caused by industrial pollution have gradually attracted people's attention.The continuous improvement of living standards has made people pay more attention to the quality of the living environment.Not only our country but also the entire world,the public has gradually become an indispensable part in participating in environmental business management.At the beginning of the establishment of the environmental protection cause,China had clearly followed the"mass line".With the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development held in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil,China also wrote "Group and Public Participation in Sustainable Development" as Chapter 20 in "China 21 st Century Population,Environment,and Development White Paper.Since the development of the public participation system in China's environmental protection,there have been several laws regulating the public participation system in the field of environmental protection,such as the "Environmental Protection Law" revised and implemented in 2015.This law uses a special chapter to specify "information Openness and public participation"shows that China attaches great importance to this aspect.In addition,a series of laws and regulations,such as the "Environmental Impact Assessment Law" and"Public Participation Measures for Environmental Impact Assessment" and regulations of ministries and commissions,have been revised around 2018 to continuously improve public participation in environmental protection.Although the legal regulations on public participation in environmental protection have been continuously improved,there are still some deficiencies in legal regulations and practice,such as the lack of public initiative to participate in environmental protection,the generalization of the public participation in environmental protection,and the inadequate relief mechanism.In practice,the public participation in environmental protection tends to be formalized.These problems make the right of public participation in environmental protection in China unable to fully realize its role,and can not truly achieve participation in democracy and justice.Therefore,it is necessary to improve the initiative and enthusiasm of public participation by designing different subjects and applying different incentive measures for different types of subjects,and constantly improve the right to information,decision-making,and relief of publicinformation,so as to make public participation in environmental protection in China Gradually resolved.