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Recent environmental attorney Maryland Articles
Apple Watch “Carbon Neutral” Claim Survives Legal Challenge – A Bellwether for Greenwashing Litigation
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-03-07T16:09:55-05:00Saturday, March 7th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: carbon neutral, environmental attorney Maryland, greenwashing, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
In a decision that may shape the next phase of environment related consumer litigation, a federal judge in California dismissed a proposed class action challenging the “carbon neutral” marketing of the Apple Watch Series 9 by Apple Inc. The case, Dib v. Apple, provides a ...
The Right to Bee – an Ordinance in Peru Gives Rights to Stingless Bees
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-02-23T16:51:32-05:00Saturday, February 21st, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: biodiversity degradation, endangered species act, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Satipo, stingless bees, Stuart Kaplow|
The Provincial Municipality of Satipo, Peru has approved Ordinance N° 33, declaring the rights of stingless bees. The bees within the territory of the Avireri-Vraem biosphere reserve that spans nearly 16,000 square miles (.. larger than the state of Maryland) from the Amazon rainforest to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Maryland Should Allow Off Grid Electricity Providers, as Should the Whole Country
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-10-04T16:00:43-04:00Saturday, October 4th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, green building lawyer, HB 672, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, maryland public service commission, off grid electricity, Stuart Kaplow|
There is no factual dispute that Maryland consumes about 40% more electricity than it generates. That shortfall is not shrinking; it is growing, and the cost of that power keeps rising. We have previously written that Maryland Needs to Produce More Electricity. That imperative is ...
EPA Seeks Public Comment on Genetically Engineered Mosquito Risk
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-08-30T20:36:05-04:00Saturday, August 30th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, FIFRA, genetically engineered mosquito, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, novel proteins, Stuart Kaplow|
As an environmental attorney, I am often asked to evaluate the legal processes surrounding emerging technologies that intersect with protecting human health and the environment. Few issues illustrate this intersection more vividly than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest announcement concerning genetically engineered mosquitoes for ...
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. ...