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California’s experiment with extended producer responsibility (EPR) has finally met significant resistance. Seventeen states, joined by the National Association of Wholesaler Distributors, have filed suit in federal court challenging California’s Plastic Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act, which was ...
Businesses facing PFAS compliance challenges received an important victory in a court decision this month when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction that had barred The Chemours Company from discharging PFAS compounds above ...
For most Americans, choosing what to eat is a matter of taste, convenience, and cost. Increasingly, however, it is also a matter of informed risk management. As an environmental attorney who spends much of his professional life evaluating scientific evidence, ...
SEC to Entirely Withdraw Contentious Climate Disclosure Rules
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 proposal focuses on returning the agency to its core mandate ...
Fourth Circuit Blocks Key Portion of Maryland’s “Electricity Marketing” Law
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 core speech restriction on describing renewable electricity, and sent the ...
Historic Low Reservoir Levels in Maryland Reveal Flaws in Modern Stormwater Management
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 low water levels in Baltimore’s drinking water reservoirs. Despite these ...
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 ...
