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Recent Maryland environmental lawyer Articles
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 ...
EPA Seeks Public Comment on Genetically Engineered Mosquito Risk
By Stuart Kaplow|2025-08-30T20:36:05-04:00Saturday, August 30th, 2025|Categories: Environmental Law|Tags: environmental attorney Maryland, FIFRA, genetically engineered mosquito, Kaplow, Maryland environmental lawyer, novel proteins, Stuart Kaplow|
As an environmental attorney, I am often asked to evaluate the legal processes surrounding emerging technologies that intersect with protecting human health and the environment. Few issues illustrate this intersection more vividly than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s latest announcement concerning genetically engineered mosquitoes for ...
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 ...