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20Jun, 2026

Clean Water Act Citizen Suits Face Higher Burden After Fourth Circuit PFAS Ruling

By |Saturday, June 20th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Businesses facing PFAS compliance challenges received an important victory in a court decision this month when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that had barred The Chemours Company from discharging PFAS compounds above permit limits into the Ohio ...

13Jun, 2026

Potassium Bromate Is Banned Abroad. Will it continue to be in American Pizza and Bagels?

By |Saturday, June 13th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , |

For most Americans, choosing what to eat is a matter of taste, convenience, and cost. Increasingly, however, it is also a matter of informed risk management. As an environmental attorney who spends much of his professional life evaluating scientific evidence, regulatory trends, and long term ...

6Jun, 2026

SEC to Entirely Withdraw Contentious Climate Disclosure Rules

By |Saturday, June 6th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission formally proposed to entirely rescind its rules that require companies to provide climate change related information in their registration statements and annual reports. While the contentious climate rules never took effect, the Commission’s proposal focuses on returning the ...

30May, 2026

Fourth Circuit Blocks Key Portion of Maryland’s “Electricity Marketing” Law

By |Saturday, May 30th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Maryland’s effort to police “green” marketing claims in the electricity sector just hit a major constitutional roadblock. In a decision last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered a preliminary injunction against a 2024 Maryland law’s core speech restriction on describing ...

23May, 2026

Historic Low Reservoir Levels in Maryland Reveal Flaws in Modern Stormwater Management

By |Saturday, May 23rd, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Environmental attorneys practicing in Maryland and advising clients throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed spend a great deal of time discussing stormwater, erosion, nutrient runoff, and water regulatory compliance. But in recent months, another issue has become impossible to ignore: historically low water levels in Baltimore’s ...

16May, 2026

EPA May 2026 PFAS Rollback and What Businesses Must Do Now

By |Saturday, May 16th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The EPA’s proposed scaling back of portions of the federal PFAS drinking water regulations is significant, but businesses should not mistake it for a retreat from PFAS compliance risk. On May 1, 2026, the White House Office of Management and Budget completed its interagency review ...

9May, 2026

Bti Spraying as a Non Essential Aesthetic Solution to Chesapeake Bay Midges

By |Saturday, May 9th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , , , |

For many waterfront property owners along the Chesapeake Bay, spring brings a familiar nuisance: aerial spraying by helicopters flying as low as 50 feet above the water, applying a naturally occurring soil bacterium as a biological ‘cosmetic’ pesticide to control midge flies. Swarms of the ...

2May, 2026

Endangered Species Act Trumped – The “God Squad” and Gulf Energy

By |Saturday, May 2nd, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: , , , , , |

After publication of this article, the Center for Biological Diversity and others filed suit against the Secretary of the Interior. The complaint is a good read. ________________________ In a decision as rare as it is consequential, the Endangered Species Committee, better known as the “God ...

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