Cross-regional lawsuit test

The procuratorate of Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, recently filed a lawsuit in the city's intermediate people's court demanding compensation from the authorities of Yangpu district, Shanghai, for dumping the district's household garbage in Wuxi.

This is the first environmental public interest lawsuit in the country filed by a judicial department in one administrative region against a government department of another region.

In recent years, there have been few lawsuits involving cross-regional garbage dumping in China because the country's environmental protection law sets numerous requirements for the eligibility of such kind of lawsuits.