Research on the Environmental Quality Standard as the Basis for the Polluter's Claim of Compliance Defense
Whether environmental quality standards can serve as a basis for polluters to argue for compliance should be based on current legislative foundation,judicial practice,and the inherent characteristics and laws of different types of pollution in China.In simulated pollution infringement,environmental quality standards cannot serve as a basis for polluters to assert compliance defenses.In substan-tive pollution infringement,polluters can deny the composition of infringement liability from a causal perspective while their pollution behavior meets environmental quality standards.Environmental quality standards,as a reason for polluters not to bear infringement lia-bility,are mainly reflected in substantive pollution infringement.