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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 ...
Potable Water Bankruptcy as Environmental Crisis
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-11-15T16:36:16-05:00Saturday, November 15th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: Baltimore environmental lawyer, environmental lawyer Maryland, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, potable water, Stuart Kaplow, water bankruptcy|
In the past few days, as many environmental advocates have gathered in Belém, Brazil, for COP30, the world’s media has focused, elsewhere, on the unfolding catastrophe in Iran, where one truth has become unavoidable: potable water, not carbon, may be the most immediate environmental emergency ...
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 ...