RECENT LAW LIBRARY ARTICLES
Last Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission formally proposed to entirely rescind its rules that require companies to provide climate change related information in their registration statements and annual reports. While the contentious climate rules never took effect, the Commission’s ...
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 ...
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 ...
EPA May 2026 PFAS Rollback and What Businesses Must Do Now
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 of two EPA proposed rules ...
Bti Spraying as a Non Essential Aesthetic Solution to Chesapeake Bay Midges
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 non biting midges (Chironomidae) rise ...
Endangered Species Act Trumped – The “God Squad” and Gulf Energy
After publication of this article, the Center for Biological Diversity and others filed suit against the Secretary of the Interior. The complaint is a good read. ________________________ In a decision as rare as it is consequential, the Endangered Species Committee, better known as the “God Squad,” voted unanimously on March ...
New Environmental Laws from the 2026 Maryland Legislature
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 the fact that Maryland is ...
What the NAACP Lawsuit Gets Wrong About xAI’s Data Center Strategy
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 frameworks, particularly under the Clean ...
Maryland Supreme Court Ends Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions Case Against Oil Companies
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 they may not.” The Court ...
