Baltimore Sun Op-Ed: Manufacturers Aren’t A Rainy Day Fund for Government

By MAP Special Counsel Phil Goldberg and Maryland Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Mary D. Kane

There is an alarming — and growing — trend in the United States where local governments sue manufacturers and other businesses to get money to pay for local societal or environmental problems. The companies they sue generally did nothing to unlawfully cause these harms: The governments just want money.  But that is not how the law is supposed to work, and these lawsuits threaten American ingenuity and Maryland jobs.

Read the full op-ed here.