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Interior Department Moves to Cancel Maryland Offshore Wind Project

Offshore wind projects are “really” dead… Continue Reading

Offshore Wind Projects are Now ‘Really’ Dead

By Stuart Kaplow on August 10, 2025 Posted in Codes and Regulations, Federal, wind turbine

As a keen legal observer in matters of environmental law, I write today in a tone of both reasoned clarity and cautious optimism: the recent Federal government decision rescinding offshore wind leasing areas delivers precisely the kind of regulatory finality that our legal system craves. This is not intended as a value judgment assessing good … Continue Reading

Maryland Offshore Wind Project Faces Legal Storm from Coastal Communities

By Stuart Kaplow on November 3, 2024 Posted in Energy, Federal, wind turbine

Maryland Consumes 40% More Electricity Than It Produces But this is Not the Solution… Continue Reading

Maryland’s Offshore Wind Ambitions Set to Soar with New Agreement

By Stuart Kaplow on June 9, 2024 Posted in Codes and Regulations, Energy, Environmental, wind turbine

The next step will be when BOEM holds a sale for the proposed offshore wind projects off the Maryland coast later this year. … Continue Reading

Criminal Conviction in Trade Secret Theft of the Wind

By Stuart Kaplow on January 28, 2018 Posted in Energy, wind turbine

While many people focused on the tariffs of 30% imposed by the United States on imported solar photovoltaic cells and modules last week, most missed the larger renewable energy news story that after an 11 day trial, last Wednesday a federal jury in Wisconsin convicted Chinese firm Sinovel of stealing wind technology, including the theft … Continue Reading

Court Blows Away Permits for Wind Turbine Eagle Kills

By Stuart Kaplow on August 23, 2015 Posted in Sustainability

On August 11, a federal court set aside the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service rule allowing 30 year permits to “take” bald and golden eagles. In an industry born from tax credits and government energy policies an interruption of one of those key policies can bring wind turbine construction to a halt. The Bald and … Continue Reading

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