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Recent environmental attorney Maryland Articles
DOE Order to Keep Maryland Oil Fired Plant Running Sparks Energy Environmental Tension
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-08-02T20:27:48-04:00Saturday, August 2nd, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental attorney Maryland, Federal Power Act, GHG, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow, Wagner Generating Station|
Last Monday, the U.S. Department of Energy issued a sweeping emergency order under the Federal Power Act, allowing the Wagner Generating Station in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, to continue producing electricity, despite having nearly exhausted its annual limit on fuel oil usage under state environmental ...
Stablecoin: The GENIUS Act Ushers in a New Era including Green Building Finance
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-07-20T07:00:20-04:00Saturday, July 19th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Genius Act, green building, Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, Kaplow, LEED, Maryland environmental, Maryland environmental lawyer, stable coin, stablecoin, Stuart Kaplow|
On July 18, 2025, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, signed into law the much anticipated Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act, that is the GENIUS Act, a sweeping piece of legislation that provides a legal framework for U.S. ...
How will Your Business Benefit from the One Big Beautiful Bill?
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-07-09T13:35:37-04:00Saturday, July 5th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: 179d, 25C, 45L, big beautiful bill, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, new markets tax credit, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, opportunity zones, Stuart Kaplow|
We have been fielding questions about the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed Congress last week and was signed by the President on July 4th, and thought that as this turns from a partisan debate to now being the law, this initial analysis would ...
All Electric Future Faces Legal Threat After Supreme Court Ruling
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-06-21T21:29:47-04:00Saturday, June 21st, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: California EV, Clean Air Act waiver, Diamond Alternative Energy, environmental attorney Maryland, EPA, Kaplow, LLC v EPA, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Section 209, Stuart Kaplow|
In a pivotal environmental case with wide reaching implications, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a group of fuel producers have Article III standing to challenge the EPA’s approval of a waiver under the Clean Air Act permitting California regulations (.. adopted in 17 ...
Mold Testing in Maryland Real Estate under the New Law
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-06-14T18:25:40-04:00Saturday, June 14th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, green building law, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, mold, mold regulation, mold test, SB 856, Stuart Kaplow|
Landlords, property managers, and real estate professionals across Maryland are about to enter a new era of regulating mold. With the General Assembly’s recent passage of Senate Bill 856, Maryland has taken a significant step toward being the first state to codify fungal growth in ...
Energy Star: A Quiet Exit and a Bright Future Beyond Government
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-06-10T11:28:45-04:00Saturday, June 7th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Energy Star, environmental attorney Maryland, EPA, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
The FY 2026 President’s Budget delivers a clear message, Energy Star, as a federal program, is on its way out. Zero dollars are appropriated for the once innovative joint EPA and Department of Energy initiative, and the EPA’s June Budget in Brief confirms what many ...
Migratory Bird Treaty Act Does Not Prohibit Incidental Take – Again
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-04-21T04:38:53-04:00Saturday, April 19th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: bird conservancy, bird friendly, bird safe building, environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, M-37050, Maryland environmental lawyer, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Stuart Kaplow|
In a sweeping return to a more literal and arguably originalist interpretation of one of the nation's environmental laws, the U.S. Department of the Interior has once again reversed course on how the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is enforced. In the latest development, incidental take, ...
President Trump’s Bold Step to Rein in State Overreach in Climate Change
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-04-19T18:02:55-04:00Saturday, April 12th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, climate change, environmental attorney Maryland, Executive Order, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental lawyer, Responding to Emergency Needs to Extreme Weather Act, Stuart Kaplow|
On April 8, 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a powerful and consequential Executive Order with the innocuous sounding title, “Protecting American Energy from State Overreach.” The impact of that Executive Order will be far broader than the title belies when it targets “burdensome and ...