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When Less Regulation Means Better Outcomes: EPA’s Poultry Effluent Rule Withdrawal Explained
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-09-06T18:21:00-04:00Saturday, September 6th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Make America Healthy Again, Maryland environmental attorney, Meat and Poultry Products Effluent Limit Revisions, Poultry Effluent Rule, Stuart Kaplow|
As environmental attorneys, we are often asked to assist clients in the balance between environmental protection, regulatory authority, and the broader socio economic impacts of government decisions. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s September 3, 2025 withdrawal of its proposed rule revising “effluent limitations guidelines” for ...
EPA Seeks Public Comment on Genetically Engineered Mosquito Risk
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-08-30T20:36:05-04:00Saturday, August 30th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, FIFRA, genetically engineered mosquito, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, novel proteins, Stuart Kaplow|
As an environmental attorney, I am often asked to evaluate the legal processes surrounding emerging technologies that intersect with protecting human health and the environment. Few issues illustrate this intersection more vividly than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest announcement concerning genetically engineered mosquitoes for ...
Interior Department Moves to Cancel Maryland Offshore Wind Project
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-08-30T06:53:52-04:00Wednesday, August 27th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, offshore wind, Stuart Kaplow, wind turbine|
In a significant legal and political development, the U.S. Department of the Interior has announced that it intends to vacate its approval of the Maryland Offshore Wind Project. This decision comes just weeks after the Department moved to block a major offshore wind project off ...
Offshore Wind Projects are Now ‘Really’ Dead
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-08-09T16:41:01-04:00Saturday, August 9th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, BOEM, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland Offshore Wind Project, offshore wind, Solar for All Program, Stuart Kaplow, US Wind, wind turbine|
As a keen legal observer in matters of environmental law, I write today in a tone of both reasoned clarity and cautious optimism: the recent Federal government decision rescinding offshore wind leasing areas delivers precisely the kind of regulatory finality that our legal system craves. ...
DOE Order to Keep Maryland Oil Fired Plant Running Sparks Energy Environmental Tension
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-08-02T20:27:48-04:00Saturday, August 2nd, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental attorney Maryland, Federal Power Act, GHG, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow, Wagner Generating Station|
Last Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a sweeping emergency order under the Federal Power Act, allowing the Wagner Generating Station in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to continue producing electricity, despite having nearly exhausted its annual limit on fuel oil usage under state environmental ...
EPA’s Reconsideration of the GHG Endangerment Finding
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-07-27T15:21:33-04:00Saturday, July 26th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Endangerment Finding, GHG, greenhouse gas, greenhouse has endangerment finding, Kaplow, Lee Zeldin, Stuart Kaplow|
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to reverse its 2009 “Endangerment Finding,” a regulatory determination that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles, buildings, power plants, and other sources “endanger public health and welfare.” That endangerment pronouncement, made under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air ...
Stablecoin: The GENIUS Act Ushers in a New Era including Green Building Finance
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-07-20T07:00:20-04:00Saturday, July 19th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Genius Act, green building, Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, Kaplow, LEED, Maryland environmental, Maryland environmental lawyer, stable coin, stablecoin, Stuart Kaplow|
On July 18, 2025, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, signed into law the much anticipated Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, that is the GENIUS Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that provides a legal framework for U.S. ...
Mold in the John Hanson House: Court Preserves Government Immunity at the Expense of Human Health
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-07-12T18:44:30-04:00Saturday, July 12th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Candace McCarthy, environmental lawyer Maryland, John Hanson, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, mold, mold regulation, SB 856, Stuart Kaplow|
Earlier this month, the Maryland Appellate Court issued a controversial ruling in Candace McCarthy v. Board of Commissioners for Frederick County, Maryland, holding that Frederick County is immune from a negligence claim stemming from mold exposure in the historic John Hanson House. The decision, issued ...