In her paper From Dispute to Decision, Rachel Stern follows the growing field of environmental law in China to determine how environmental law works in China. To do this she decides to follow a case from the beginning with the complaints of the citizens to the end with a decision in the court room. What she finds, however, may in fact say more about the state of Rule of law in China overall as opposed to simply the problem of pollution in the cities. She finds that the best way to describe the situation in the Chinese legal system. She determines that how the courts operate towards a case and plaintiff success is largely dependent on what issue the case involves and what locality the court serves. This is certainly a problem that needs to be addressed by the central government as the Rule of law is not something that should vary from locality. She ends with a rather pessimistic view on the outlook of Chinese environmentalism stating that she expects the CCP to show utter disregard towards the law when protecting large corporations. This could have profound impacts on not only environmentalism in China but the rule of law government accountability in the PRC.