Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2011 by Jonathan Kaiman
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jul/14/world/la-fg-china-oil-spill-20110715
This week, a coalition of 11 Chinese environmental advocacy groups announced plans to file a joint lawsuit in hopes of garnering more transparency in the oil industry. Alex Wang, a Chinese environmental law expert at UC Berkeley Law School, said there was little hope of the lawsuit reaching court. “In China, incidents of this magnitude are seldom ever handled in the courts,” Wang said. “They’ll almost always be handled by the government.”