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Climate Change Chapter Omitted from Federal Courts Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-03-14T17:31:54-04:00Saturday, February 14th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, Federal Judicial Center, Judge Robin Rosenberg, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, Stuart Kaplow|
On February 6, 2026, the Federal Judicial Center, the research and education arm of the federal judiciary, omitted (i.e., withdrew) a chapter from the newest edition of its reference manual on scientific evidence that addressed climate change. The manual is a guide to help judges make ...
Why Land Subsidence Matters More Than Sea Level Rise
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-04T14:40:57-04:00Saturday, February 7th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, land subsidence, Maryland environmental attorney, Mexico City, sea level rise, Stuart Kaplow|
Why Land Subsidence Matters More Than Sea Level Rise When we talk about “sea level rise,” most people immediately think of melting polar ice and warming oceans. But along much of the United States’ Atlantic coast, especially in and around the Chesapeake Bay, that narrative ...
A More Efficacious Way to Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-31T15:24:54-05:00Saturday, January 31st, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Carbon Measures, E-ledger, GHG, GHG Protocol, greenhouse gas emissions, Karthik Ramanna, Maryland BEPS, net direct greenhouse gas, product level accounting, Robert S. Kaplan, scope 3|
As an environmental attorney who spends much of my time advising business owners, I have learned an immutable truth: markets work best when the rules are clear, fair, and grounded in reality. Environmental policy is no exception. Contrary to the prevailing narrative in popular media, ...
United States Sues Morgan Hill and Petaluma over All Electric Building Laws
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-24T20:32:59-05:00Saturday, January 24th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: all electric building, Energy Policy and Conservation Act, environmental lawyer Maryland, EPCA, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Morgan Hill, Petaluma, Stuart Kaplow|
On January 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against the cities of Morgan Hill (Santa Clara County) and Petaluma (Sonoma County), California, challenging local ordinances that effectively ban natural gas infrastructure and gas powered appliances in new buildings. The complaint, docketed ...
WARNING: This Product Contains an Ingredient Not Recommended for Human Consumption …
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-17T16:06:23-05:00Saturday, January 17th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: bleached flour, blue 1 dye, Kaplow, MAHA, Make America Healthy Again, Make Texas Healthy Again Act, Senate Bill 25, Stuart Kaplow|
Businesses across the country face a consequential legal and commercial crossroads as Texas Senate Bill 25, branded the Make Texas Healthy Again Act, thrusts state level food labeling regulation into uncharted constitutional and regulatory territory. The stakes are high: companies that manufacture, market, or sell ...
Microplastics – The Next Environmental Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-11T18:20:43-05:00Saturday, January 10th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, microplastic, Mr. Trash Wheel, nanoplastic, nurdle, Stuart Kaplow|
For decades, environmental law has been built around visible harms: smokestacks, discharge pipes, landfills, and oil spills. We regulate what we can see. Microplastics represent the opposite problem, an environmental threat that is largely invisible, already ubiquitous, and increasingly understood to be biologically active. In ...
Why Electricity will be the Number One Environmental Issue of 2026
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-06T22:24:29-05:00Saturday, January 3rd, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: batteries, electricity, energy, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, number one environmental issue of 2026, Stuart Kaplow|
As environmental attorneys, we spend much of our time advising clients on regulatory risk, compliance, and strategic opportunities. Increasingly, those conversations converge on a single issue: energy, specifically electricity. Looking ahead to 2026, electricity is shaping up to be not only the defining environmental issue ...
2025 Year in Review of Environmental Blog Posts
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-12-27T15:50:59-05:00Saturday, December 27th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, environmental blog posts, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
As 2025 draws to a close, environmental law once again proved to be less about ideology and more about adaptation. The environmental issues that resonated most this year, from political, cultural to economic, reflected in our Top 10 most read blog posts, were those that ...