On August 27th, the Supreme People's Procuratorate released 10 typical cases of ecological environment prosecution in Huzhou, Zhejiang. In these typical cases, the investigating authorities punished crimes of damaging and polluting environmental resources in accordance with the law, revealing the key, difficult, and effective points of judicial protection of the ecological environment. In one typical case, Huang hired Chen and others to rent an abandoned factory on the banks of the Yangtze River in Jiujiang District, Wuhu City, Anhui Province from 2018 to March 2023, and privately laid underground pipes to connect to the Yangtze River. Li, Wang, and other intermediaries knew that Huang did not have the qualification to dispose of hazardous waste, but still used dangerous goods tank trucks to transport hazardous waste such as "dilute sulfuric acid" and "waste hydrochloric acid" from eight enterprises including Anhui Science and Technology Co., Ltd. in the Yangtze River Delta region to the factory building. Without any disposal, they handed it over to Huang for direct discharge into the Yangtze River through a hidden pipe. Until the incident, 24 people including Huang and 8 companies including Anhui Technology Co., Ltd. directly discharged 23125 tons of hazardous waste into the Yangtze River. After appraisal, the amount of ecological environment damage caused by the above-mentioned illegal acts is over 106 million yuan. The procuratorial organs of Jiujiang District, Wuhu City, perform the functions of criminal and public interest litigation as a whole, focusing on the "hard bone" issue of cross provincial hazardous waste discharge. They include waste production enterprises, transfer intermediaries, and disposal personnel in the responsibility system, achieve full chain accountability, and initiate criminal and civil public interest litigation against violators, making them jointly and severally liable for ecological environment damage compensation within their respective responsibilities. In another typical case, two managers of a key polluting unit in Chongqing illegally interfered with the automatic monitoring data collection 1560 times for personal interests, violating enterprise regulations and accumulating more than 20000 minutes. The People's Procuratorate of Nan'an District, Chongqing City intervened in advance to guide the investigation, conducted self supplementary investigations in a timely manner, and filed public prosecutions in accordance with the law. Two enterprise managers were sentenced to ten months and seven months in prison respectively, and the ecological environment supervision order was maintained. The Procuratorate of Xianning City, Hubei Province, has filed an administrative public interest lawsuit to address various issues such as the degradation of the ecological system structure of the lake in the Axe Lake Basin, insufficient management and protection of the water shoreline, and ineffective prevention and control of water pollution. It urges multiple functional departments to work together to fulfill their duties, improve cross regional judicial cooperation mechanisms, and promote long-term governance of the entire Axe Lake area. In response to the problem of enterprises in furniture manufacturing, textile dyeing and finishing industries not installing and using pollution prevention and control facilities in accordance with regulations, resulting in illegal direct emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), the Nanxun District Procuratorate of Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province has delved into common industry problems, discovered case clues in batches through the construction of a big data legal supervision model, and used public interest litigation to urge administrative agencies to perform their duties in accordance with the law, promote relevant functional departments to carry out special rectification, promote enterprises in the jurisdiction to complete technological upgrades, improve the comprehensive management of VOCs exhaust emissions throughout the entire process and all links, and serve the green transformation of regional characteristic industries. The judicial authorities have been exploring how to promote the restoration of damaged ecological resources while handling cases. In a typical case, the procuratorial organs of Yongzhou City, Hunan Province, identified the problem of illegal destruction of more than 260 acres of forest land, issued prosecutorial suggestions to the forestry department to urge them to perform their duties in accordance with the law, promptly filed administrative public interest lawsuits for situations where only partial rectification was made after receiving prosecutorial suggestions, urged them to fulfill their responsibilities for ecological restoration and supervision of forest land, and collaborated to determine a replanting and greening plan to effectively restore damaged forest land. (New Society)