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Roll Back of Endangered Species Habitat Regulation by Rescinding the Definition of “Harm”
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-07-18T18:31:29-04:00Saturday, July 18th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: endangered species act, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, Maryland Nongame and Endangered Species Ac|
For decades, federal agencies interpreted a single word in the 1973 Endangered Species Act, "harm" far beyond its ordinary meaning. On July 14, 2026, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service corrected that course by rescinding the regulatory definition that had ...
The Supreme Court’s Monsanto Decision – Why Businesses Far Beyond the Herbicide Industry Should Pay Attention
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-07-06T05:54:12-04:00Sunday, July 5th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: BEPS, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland BEPS, Maryland environmental attorney, Monsanto, Roundup, Stuart Kaplow, supremacy clause|
The U.S. Supreme Court's June 25, 2026, decision in Monsanto Co. v. Durnell is being reported in the mass media as another chapter in the long running Roundup mass tort litigation. That characterization misses the larger story about the Court amassing power for itself and ...
California Extended Producer Responsibility Law Challenged in Federal Court
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-06-27T21:14:24-04:00Saturday, June 27th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, EPR, Extended Producer Responsibility, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, SB 54, Stuart Kaplow|
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 SB 54. The case, State ...
Potassium Bromate Is Banned Abroad. Will it continue to be in American Pizza and Bagels?
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-06-13T16:04:46-04:00Saturday, June 13th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, exposomics, Kaplow, MAHA, Maryland environmental attorney, Potassium Bromate, Stuart Kaplow|
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, regulatory trends, and long term ...
SEC to Entirely Withdraw Contentious Climate Disclosure Rules
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-06-06T16:28:49-04:00Saturday, June 6th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, Enhancement and Standardization of Climate-Related Disclosures for Investors, environmental lawyer Maryland, GHG emission, greenhouse gas emissions, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, SEC Disclosure Related to Climate Change, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
EPA May 2026 PFAS Rollback and What Businesses Must Do Now
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-16T19:08:53-04:00Saturday, May 16th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, green building lawyer, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental attorney, PFAS, PFOA, PFOS, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
Bti Spraying as a Non Essential Aesthetic Solution to Chesapeake Bay Midges
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-09T19:41:56-04:00Saturday, May 9th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore County, Bti, Chesapeake Bay, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, midges, Stuart Kaplow|
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 ...
What the NAACP Lawsuit Gets Wrong About xAI’s Data Center Strategy
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-06-18T13:53:58-04:00Saturday, April 18th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Elon Musk, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental attorney, NAACP lawsuit, Stuart Kaplow, xAI|
After this was posted, on June 16, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion to intervene, requesting a dismissal of the case, arguing the turbines are essential for AI innovation, supporting U.S. military operations. The outcome could shape how environmental law and national security ...