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Recent Baltimore environmental lawyer Articles
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 ...
From Boilerplate to Benchmarking: The New Era of Climate Smart Leases
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-10-25T16:56:05-04:00Saturday, October 25th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, BEPS, climate smart lease, environmental lawyer Maryland, green lease, Kaplow, lease, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Stuart Kaplow|
It would be convenient if this were only a prospective conversation about the leases you are about to sign. It isn’t. Tens of thousands of existing leases (many with long renewal terms) are for premises that are subject to greenhouse gas disclosure and reduction laws ...
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. ...
Greenstalling is Not a Thing, But ..
By Stuart Kaplow|2024-09-29T16:31:44-04:00Saturday, September 28th, 2024|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, Climate Week NYC, environmental attorney Maryland, green bleaching, green washing, greenstalling, greenwashing, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
Last week's Climate Week NYC was driven by the theme “It’s Time,” a rallying cry meant to emphasize the urgency of climate action. However, a new term emerged in that highly charged environment, “greenstalling.” This concept, according to some of the radical environmental movement voices ...









