May 1st 2009 marks the one year anniversary of the implementation of China's Regulation on Environmental Information Disclosure. What were the effects of this new law? What current problems are we facing? What are the causes and effective solutions to these problems? Together, NRDC, Sohu Green, and China Dialogue, hosted a workshop that focused on China's Regulation on Environmental Information Disclosure. Our groups invited experts engaged with relevant legislation to speak at the workshop. The speakers included Professor. Wang Jin from the Law School of Peking University Environment and Resources Law Research Institute, Mr. Yan Yiming, the lawyer who first proposed environmental information disclosure, Mr. Ma Jun, IPE founder and creator of both the "Water Pollution Map" and the "Air Pollution Map" databases, and Ms. Hu Yuanqiong, Staff Attorney from NRDC. The speakers discussed and share their views on environmental information disclosure and public participation.
