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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 ...
Mandatory GHG Disclosures in Maryland Real Estate Contracts
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-04-05T17:31:05-04:00Saturday, April 5th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental attorney Maryland, GHG disclosures, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland real estate contracts, Stuart Kaplow|
Maryland law now requires specified greenhouse gas emissions disclosures and exchange of performance data in a contract of sale for buildings subject to the state’s Building Energy Performance Standards. Failure to comply with the regulation can have significant financial and legal consequences. Maryland has quietly ...
Greenpeace Ordered to Pay $667M in Blow to Activism
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-24T21:31:06-04:00Saturday, March 22nd, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Dakota Access Pipeline, Energy Transfer, environmental attorney Maryland, green building lawyer, Greenpeace, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
In a landmark decision with profound implications for environmental activism and corporate accountability, a North Dakota jury has rendered a verdict requiring Greenpeace to pay over $660 million in damages to Energy Transfer, the company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline. This outcome stems from Greenpeace's ...
The Most Consequential Day of Environmental Deregulation in American History
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-15T19:03:46-04:00Saturday, March 15th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Energy Star, environmental attorney Maryland, EPA, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Lee Zeldin, Maryland BEPS, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental lawyer, Stuart Kaplow|
EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, announced last Thursday, “Yesterday was the most consequential day of deregulation in American history. Alongside President Trump, we announced that the Environmental Protection Agency will take 31 actions to advance his day-one executive orders and power the Great American Comeback.” I ...
EPA Transmits California Electric Vehicle Waivers to Congress for Repeal
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-02-22T17:49:56-05:00Saturday, February 22nd, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Advanced Clean Cars II, Advanced Clean Trucks, electric vehicle, environmental attorney Maryland, EV charger, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, Omnibus NOx rules, Stuart Kaplow|
On February 14, 2025, newly appointed U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced in the Oval Office, alongside President Donald Trump, that the EPA would transmit to Congress requests to repeal of the Biden Administration’s electric vehicle mandates that granted waivers to California. These ...
SEC Reverses Course on Defending its Climate Related Disclosure Rule
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-03-27T20:21:41-04:00Saturday, February 15th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: climate change, Climate Solutions Now Act of 2022, environmental attorney Maryland, greenhouse gas, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, SEC Disclosure Related to Climate Change, Stuart Kaplow, The Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors|
After this was posted, on March 27, 2025, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted to end its defense of the rules requiring disclosure of climate related risks and greenhouse gas emissions. SEC staff sent a letter to the court stating that the Commission withdraws ...