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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 ...
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 ...