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Fourth Circuit Blocks Key Portion of Maryland’s “Electricity Marketing” Law
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-30T17:31:27-04:00Saturday, May 30th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Green Mountain Energy Co, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, REC, Retail Energy Advancement League, S.B. 1, SB 1, Senate Bill 1, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
Historic Low Reservoir Levels in Maryland Reveal Flaws in Modern Stormwater Management
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-23T22:03:21-04:00Saturday, May 23rd, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Liberty reservoir, Loch Raven reservoir, Maryland environmental lawyer, Prettyboy reservoir, stormwater, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
EPA May 2026 PFAS Rollback and What Businesses Must Do Now
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-16T19:08:53-04:00Saturday, May 16th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental attorney, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
Bti Spraying as a Non Essential Aesthetic Solution to Chesapeake Bay Midges
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-09T19:41:56-04:00Saturday, May 9th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore County, Bti, Chesapeake Bay, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, midges, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
Endangered Species Act Trumped – The “God Squad” and Gulf Energy
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-02T15:20:14-04:00Saturday, May 2nd, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: endangered species act, endangered species committee, god squad, Kaplow, Maryland Nongame and Endangered Species Ac, Stuart Kaplow|
In a decision as rare as it is consequential, the Endangered Species Committee, better known as the “God Squad,” voted unanimously on March 31, 2026, to exempt all oil and gas exploration, development, and production activities in the Gulf of America from compliance with the ...
New Environmental Laws from the 2026 Maryland Legislature
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-04-27T04:49:56-04:00Saturday, April 25th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental law, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland flood risk disclosure, Stuart Kaplow|
The 448th session of the Maryland General Assembly concluded on April 13, 2026, after considering 2,229 bills. During the 90 day legislative session, 884 of those bills passed both chambers and are being presented to the Governor for his signature by June 2, 2026. Despite ...
What the NAACP Lawsuit Gets Wrong About xAI’s Data Center Strategy
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-04-18T22:40:05-04:00Saturday, April 18th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Elon Musk, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, NAACP lawsuit, Stuart Kaplow, xAI|
The lawsuit filed last week against xAI over temporary power generation at its Mississippi data center is being framed as a novel environmental justice action. In reality, it is more likely to become a case study in how rapidly evolving infrastructure collides with legacy regulatory ...
Maryland Supreme Court Ends Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Case Against Oil Companies
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-03-28T17:25:28-04:00Saturday, March 28th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental lawyer Maryland, GHG, greenhouse gas emissions, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow, Suncor Energy|
The Supreme Court of Maryland ruled last week, “[t]he question presented in this case is whether Maryland local governments may bring state common law tort claims against 26 multinational oil and gas companies to recover damages caused by global greenhouse gas emissions. We hold that ...