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as power plants and factories.It is estimated that AEP will spend more than $4.6 billion to comply with the consent decree. AEP must also pay a $15 million civil fine and $60 million in cleanup and mitigation costs to help heal polluted land in the Shenandoah National Park and waterways including the Chesapeake Bay. The settlement also is the largest as measured in terms of pollution reductions obtained from the owner or operator of a Clean Air Act stationary source(s). Upon full implementation, the settlement will secure at least 813,000 tons per year of air pollution reductions from AEP’s 16 power plants. The thesie conains five parts.The author formulate and analyze the ways of setting environmental disputes which including Civil Litigation in United State, as well as its defects and the causation of environment infringement,the legal policy of air pollution etc. base on this environment civil lawsuit in USA which is meaningful at justice practices. But the author dose not mean that China should copy the legislative of USA. Because China is under the different legal culture from USA, so the legal system will be different. Depends on the situation of our Country in now days, strong law enforcement is the necessary way to handle environmental pollution. From this point of view,the author consider that rethink the legal improvement in past few years is a inevitable topic for China. In the epilogue,the author drew a conclusion about the basic opinions of this disertation in hope of being benificial to the research on enviormental disputes in china. Key words: Environmental disputes ；Air pollution ；Citizen groups ； Environmental enforcement settlement 目 录 引 言1 一、案由3 二、案情3 三、案件争议焦点