{"id":3249,"date":"2015-05-27T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/environment.law.harvard.edu\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2019-05-08T14:48:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T14:48:23","slug":"clinic-submits-comments-on-proposed-regulations-for-offshore-drilling-in-the-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/2015\/05\/27\/clinic-submits-comments-on-proposed-regulations-for-offshore-drilling-in-the-arctic\/","title":{"rendered":"Clinic Submits Comments on Proposed Regulations for Offshore Drilling in the Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmett Environmental Law &amp; Policy Clinic submitted <a href=\"http:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/files\/2015\/08\/comments-doi-draft-regulations-oil-gas-sulphur-operations-outer-continental-shelf.pdf\">comments<\/a> today on the Department of the Interior\u2019s (\u201cDOI\u201d) proposed regulations for offshore exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic. \u00a0The Emmett Clinic supported the agency\u2019s proposals to require that operators maintain a secondary drill rig in the Arctic to respond to potential losses of well control and that operators have prompt access to, and immediately deploy, source control and containment equipment in the event of an oil spill.<\/p>\n<p>The Clinic also identified areas in which the proposal could be improved.\u00a0 In particular, the Clinic criticized DOI\u2019s reliance on a performance-based standard for the secondary drill rig requirement.\u00a0 The Clinic proposed that the regulations should instead mandate that a relief rig always be available within a minimum distance from the drill site, while still including a performance-based standard as a backstop.\u00a0 In addition, the Clinic suggested several ways that the regulations could be changed to improve public access to information and provide better opportunities for public participation in the regulatory process.\u00a0 The comments were part of the Emmett Clinic\u2019s on-going focus on the impacts of offshore drilling, especially in the Arctic.<\/p>\n<p>Clinic student James Zhu, JD \u201916, took the leading role in drafting the comments.\u00a0 Abhishek Banerjee-Shukla, JD \u201915, and Pradeep Singh, LLM \u201915 also contributed to them.\u00a0 The students worked under the supervision of Clinic Director Wendy Jacobs and Senior Clinical Instructor Shaun Goho.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Emmett Environmental Law &amp; Policy Clinic submitted comments today on the Department of the Interior\u2019s (\u201cDOI\u201d) proposed regulations for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinic-publications","category-elp-news-events","category-news","post-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clinics.law.harvard.edu\/environment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}