Sep 18, 2009 09:24 PM

Legal Struggles for a Cleaner Environment

By staff reporters Qin Xudong and Luo Jieqi

( Magazine) A court in southern China needed only 34 days to settle a 15-year-old environmental predicament at a nature reserve. But much more time may be needed to overcome obstacles to environmental law in China that surfaced during the recent fight to protect Baihua Lake in Guizhou Province.

The case dates to 1994 when an agreement was signed to develop a state-owned, 800-square-meter plot of land on the shores of Baihua, a 58-square-kilometer lake that boasts more than 170 islets, rich vegetation and karst landscape.

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