环境公益诉讼是公众参与的表现,能对权力腐败予以防治,其首要前提是要保障公民的知情权。只有逐步健全信息公开机制,让公民充分了解政府工作,才能对政府工作进行准确的评价和有效的监督。党的十七大报告明确提出:“建设生态文明,基本形成节约能源资源和保护生态环境的产业结构、增长方式、消费模式”。国务院《关于落实科学发展观加强环境保护的决定》也明文规定:“完善对污染受害者的法律援助机制,研究建立环境民事和行政公诉制度”。 Environmental public interest litigation is a manifestation of public participation, which can prevent and cure power corruption. The first precondition is to protect citizens’ right to know. Only by gradually improving the mechanism for disclosing information so that citizens can fully understand government work can we accurately evaluate and effectively supervise government work. The report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly put forward: “Building an ecological civilization, basically forming an industrial structure, mode of growth and consumption pattern that saves energy and resources and protects the ecological environment.” The State Council’s “Decision on Implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development and Strengthening Environmental Protection” also expressly states: “Perfecting the Legal Assistance Mechanism for Pollution Victims, and Studying the Establishment of Environmental Civil and Administrative Prosecution Systems.”