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Recent Environmental Law Articles
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 ...
How will Your Business Benefit from the One Big Beautiful Bill?
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-07-09T13:35:37-04:00Saturday, July 5th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 179d, 25C, 45L, big beautiful bill, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, new markets tax credit, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, opportunity zones, Stuart Kaplow|
We have been fielding questions about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed Congress last week and was signed by the President on July 4th, and thought that as this turns from a partisan debate to now being the law, this initial analysis would ...
Fireworks and the Law: A Rare Case of Regulatory Restraint in Environmental Protection
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-07-03T17:24:57-04:00Thursday, July 3rd, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, fireworks, green building law, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow|
In the storied words of John Adams in his July 3, 1776 letter to Abigail, “It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time ...
Maryland Expands Bat Protections: New Law Shifts Approach to Biodiversity
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-06-28T18:53:10-04:00Saturday, June 28th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: bats, eastern small footed bat, Endangered and Threatened Species – Incidental Taking – Bats, environmental lawyer Maryland, green building lawyer, Indiana bat, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, northern long-eared bat, SB 946, Stuart Kaplow, tricolored bat|
Biodiversity degradation is an existential crisis affecting planetary and human health. Since the enactment of the federal Endangered Species Act in 1973, populations of mammals, birds, amphibians, and fish have dropped a shocking 68%. As scientists and policymakers grapple with addressing the rapid and widespread ...