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Extended Producer Responsibility – A Rapidly Changing Environmental Landscape in Maryland and Elsewhere
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-12-31T14:27:53-05:00Saturday, December 20th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, EPR, Extended Producer Responsibility, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, recycle, Stuart Kaplow|
Extended Producer Responsibility laws, often referred to simply as EPR, represent one of the most consequential shifts in U.S. environmental policy affecting businesses from manufacturers and multi family residential building owners to distributors and retailers. These laws fundamentally change who pays for, manages, and is ...
Exposomics Is the Environmental Issue Business Should Take Seriously
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-12-13T16:57:39-05:00Saturday, December 13th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, exposome, exposomics, Green Globes, indoor air quality, Kaplow, LEED, MAHA, Make America Healthy Again, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow|
For decades, environmental law focused on the visible and the catastrophic: spills, smokestacks, Superfund sites, and enforcement actions after damage was done. Today, a quieter but far more pervasive environmental issue is moving to the center of serious scientific and commercial attention: exposomics. Businesses should ...
Reopening a 10 Year Old Bankruptcy for Environmental Claims to Bring Finality to CERCLA Liability
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-12-06T19:17:30-05:00Saturday, December 6th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: and Liability Act, bankruptcy, CERCLA, Compensation, Comprehensive Environmental Response, Congoleum, environmental lawyer Maryland, In re Congoleum, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow, Superfund|
Environmental and real estate practitioners spend a great deal of time counseling clients on how to avoid or allocate liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA a/k/a Superfund). For purchasers of property, the Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is often the ...
Déjà Vu Again Federal Agencies Move to Restore Clarity in Endangered Species Regulations
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-11-29T15:07:07-05:00Saturday, November 29th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: endangered species act, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, Maryland Nongame and Endangered Species Ac, Stuart Kaplow|
Just before Thanksgiving, while most Americans were preparing for turkey and stuffing, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service set the table for a major regulatory reset under the Endangered Species Act. And no, turkeys are not threatened or endangered, ...
Greenwashing Lawsuits Surge in 2025: Navigating the Expanding Risk
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-11-24T07:42:44-05:00Saturday, November 22nd, 2025|Categories: Legal Library|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, green building lawyer, Green Guides, greenwashing, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, net zero, Stuart Kaplow|
The delicate space of business environmental marketing statements and public disclosures became markedly more treacherous in 2025. From food producers to fashion brands and consumer products to commercial real estate, businesses today face a rapidly expanding universe of greenwashing lawsuits. These claims, once niche and ...
Potable Water Bankruptcy as Environmental Crisis
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-11-15T16:36:16-05:00Saturday, November 15th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, potable water, Stuart Kaplow, water bankruptcy|
In the past few days, as many environmental advocates have gathered in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, the world’s media has focused, elsewhere, on the unfolding catastrophe in Iran, where one truth has become unavoidable: potable water, not carbon, may be the most immediate environmental emergency ...
Battery Storage: The New “Must Have” Amenity in Commercial Leases
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-11-10T06:19:55-05:00Saturday, November 8th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, battery storage, brown out, demand response, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, lithium ion, Maryland BEPS, peak shaving, solid state batteries, Stuart Kaplow|
Battery storage has become one of the hottest topics in commercial real estate leasing, a key amenity and, increasingly, a top tenant ask in Class A buildings. What was barely on the radar five years ago has now emerged as a central negotiating point between ...
Federal Bank Regulators Withdraw Climate Mandates
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-11-01T16:32:04-04:00Saturday, November 1st, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions., Stuart Kaplow|
On October 16, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve Board, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency jointly “.. announced the withdrawal of their interagency Principles for Climate-Related Financial Risk Management for Large Financial Institutions.” This is a positive and, frankly, ...