The Role of Administrative Courts in Reducing Environmental Pollution: Toward Achieving Environmental Justice by Confronting Environmental Encroachment

Administrative courts in various countries of the world play a major role in protecting environmental pollution by achieving environmental justice. This study aims to explain the mechanism of applying environmental laws to every person who causes harm to the environment. Administrative courts consider lawsuits related to environmental pollution and take the necessary legal measures to prevent infringement on the environment, in addition to stating the administrative penalties specified in environmental laws that these courts can impose on people who infringe on the environment. The problem of the study lies in the role of administrative courts in finding a kind of balance between preserving the environment and developing economic activities to achieve sustainable development. In this study, the analytical approach was followed by analyzing the legal texts related to environmental aggression and the texts that allow administrative courts to impose administrative penalties. At the end of the study, a set of results and recommendations were reached, the most important of which is considering administrative courts as a place to resolve disputes related to the environment, with the need for the competent authorities to commit to implementing environmental laws, and the need to strengthen the role of these courts in combating environmental pollution by increasing their powers to monitor environmental attacks and impose administrative penalties on violators.