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Recent Maryland environmental lawyer Articles
Fourth Circuit Blocks Key Portion of Maryland’s “Electricity Marketing” Law
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-30T17:31:27-04:00Saturday, May 30th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Green Mountain Energy Co, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, REC, Retail Energy Advancement League, S.B. 1, SB 1, Senate Bill 1, Stuart Kaplow|
Maryland’s effort to police “green” marketing claims in the electricity sector just hit a major constitutional roadblock. In a decision last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ordered a preliminary injunction against a 2024 Maryland law’s core speech restriction on describing ...
Historic Low Reservoir Levels in Maryland Reveal Flaws in Modern Stormwater Management
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-05-23T22:03:21-04:00Saturday, May 23rd, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Liberty reservoir, Loch Raven reservoir, Maryland environmental lawyer, Prettyboy reservoir, stormwater, Stuart Kaplow|
Environmental attorneys practicing in Maryland and advising clients throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed spend a great deal of time discussing stormwater, erosion, nutrient runoff, and water regulatory compliance. But in recent months, another issue has become impossible to ignore: historically low water levels in Baltimore’s ...
New Environmental Laws from the 2026 Maryland Legislature
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-04-27T04:49:56-04:00Saturday, April 25th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland Department of the Environment, Maryland environmental law, Maryland environmental lawyer, Maryland flood risk disclosure, Stuart Kaplow|
The 448th session of the Maryland General Assembly concluded on April 13, 2026, after considering 2,229 bills. During the 90 day legislative session, 884 of those bills passed both chambers and are being presented to the Governor for his signature by June 2, 2026. Despite ...
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 ...
Microplastics – The Next Environmental Crisis We Can No Longer Ignore
By Stuart Kaplow|2026-01-11T18:20:43-05:00Saturday, January 10th, 2026|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, microplastic, Mr. Trash Wheel, nanoplastic, nurdle, Stuart Kaplow|
For decades, environmental law has been built around visible harms: smokestacks, discharge pipes, landfills, and oil spills. We regulate what we can see. Microplastics represent the opposite problem, an environmental threat that is largely invisible, already ubiquitous, and increasingly understood to be biologically active. In ...
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 ...