{"id":338,"date":"2012-12-05T12:00:26","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/?p=338"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:58:29","slug":"new-clinic-white-paper-on-offshore-aquaculture-and-the-clean-water-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/new-clinic-white-paper-on-offshore-aquaculture-and-the-clean-water-act\/","title":{"rendered":"New Clinic White Paper on Offshore Aquaculture and the Clean Water Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/files\/2012\/12\/aquaculture-hawaii-kona-blue-07-2006.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-562\" title=\"aquaculture-hawaii-kona-blue-07-2006\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/files\/2012\/12\/aquaculture-hawaii-kona-blue-07-2006-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/files\/2012\/12\/aquaculture-hawaii-kona-blue-07-2006-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/files\/2012\/12\/aquaculture-hawaii-kona-blue-07-2006.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Emmett Environmental Law &amp; Policy Clinic, in collaboration with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Ocean Foundation, released a white paper entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/files\/2013\/10\/CWA-aquaculture-FINAL_revised-10-2-13.pdf\">Offshore Aquaculture Regulation Under the Clean Water Act<\/a>\u201d in December 2012. \u00a0The work of Clinic students Sara Bartel (JD \u201913), Russell Feit (JD \u201912), and Turner Smith (JD \u201912) is featured in the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The paper posits that while offshore aquaculture is still a nascent industry, EPA can\u2014and should\u2014develop appropriate tools to establish adequate oversight of these facilities in federal ocean waters. \u00a0In particular, the paper recommends that (1) EPA ensure that all offshore facilities that discharge into the ocean are considered point sources and must obtain a discharge permit; (2) improve the standards for offshore aquaculture facility permits to set numeric limits for all types of discharges; and (3) identify data needs and develop requirements for monitoring and reporting for all facilities in the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmett Environmental Law &amp; Policy Clinic, in collaboration with the Environmental Law Institute (ELI) and the Ocean Foundation, released a white paper entitled \u201cOffshore Aquaculture Regulation Under the Clean Water Act\u201d in December 2012. \u00a0The work of Clinic students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/new-clinic-white-paper-on-offshore-aquaculture-and-the-clean-water-act\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4638,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81265,81316,81296,57371,77862,1801],"tags":[81270],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emmett-environmental-law-and-policy-clinic","category-clinic-news","category-clinic-publications","category-past-events","category-recent-publications","category-students","tag-aquaculture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/environmentallawprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}