Reuters: Prosecutors in eastern China have filed a lawsuit against a county-level environmental protection department, accusing it of "failing to fulfil its regulatory duties" in its supervision of a local sewage firm, China's top prosecutor said on Monday.
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate said the lawsuit filed by prosecutors in eastern Shandong province last week marked the first time prosecutors had sued a government department in a public interest case.
"This is the country's first administrative...