NGOs and legal figures…argue that the third draft of the 1989 Environmental Protection Law…prevents public interest litigation from being brought by anyone except the All-China Environmental Federation (ACEF), some of whose corporate members have dubious environmental records themselves…The part on public interest litigation specifies that only "national organisations, registered with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, of good repute, and engaged in protecting the environment for five years or more have the right to bring litigation in cases of pollution, environmental damage and harm to the public interest"...Cao Mingde, a law professor at the China University of Politics and Law said that a strict implementation of the third draft would leave only a few national organisations able to bring litigation…[refers to Shenhua Group]