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Rich Blaustein

@richblaustein.bsky.social
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Science, environmental and legal journalist. Covers climate change, biodiversity, Earth sciences, physics, constitutional law. Posts/opinions are my own. richblaustein@gmail.com

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 8h
"At D.C. Bar Preview, Experts Examine Upcoming Supreme Court Battles" www.dcbar.org/news-events/...
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DC Bar - At D.C. Bar Preview, Experts Examine Upcoming Supreme Court Battles
At the D.C. Bar's Supreme Court Review and Preview, panelists analyzed executive power rulings and previewed Second Amendment, jury, and religious liberty cases.
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"Ahead of Trump's Meeting With Xi Jinping, Researchers See Chance for California and China To Work Together on Climate" - at research.ceb.com/posts/ahead-...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"CARB Pushes Deadline for Companies' 2026 GHG Reporting, Hints at Changes to Future Rule" research.ceb.com/posts/carb-p...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"New Landmark PPIC Report Provides Timely Review of California Tribes' Water Rights" research.ceb.com/posts/new-la...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Recent Ninth, Second Circuit Decisions Uphold Local Gas Appliance Ordinances" research.ceb.com/posts/recent...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My Washington Lawyer feature article on the United States and the Law of the Sea Convention in the Sept./Oct. issue, p. 18 at washingtonlawyer.dcbar.org/septemberoct...
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Washington Lawyer - September/October 2026
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dispute over environmental review and Native Peoples consultation - Comité Civico Del Valle et al. v. County of Imperial et al. My 1200-word article on the decision is at - research.ceb.com/posts/fourth... My 1800-word article on the oral argument is at - research.ceb.com/posts/ceqa-w...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
"New Reports from CARB, Coastal Commission Provide Guidance on 'Nature-Based Solutions' for Land Use and Climate Impacts" - at CEB DailyNews - research.ceb.com/posts/new-re...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"Researchers Present on California Water Initiatives at International Conference in Vienna" - CEB DailyNews at - research.ceb.com/posts/resear...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"California Officials Celebrate SCOTUS Decision Upholding Birthright Citizenship, But Say the Fight Isn't Over" research.ceb.com/posts/califo...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"CARB Adopts New Regulation for California's Cap-and-Invest Program, Avoids Extra CEQA Review" - at CEB DailyNews - research.ceb.com/posts/carb-a...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
On this 250th anniversary- "The President is up there in the White House for you.... it is not you who are here for him, The Secretaries act in their bureaus for you.... not you here for them, The Congress convenes every December for you..." Walt Whitman "Leaves of Grass" (1855)
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
"Proposed Fracking Project Off Ventura's Coast Is Latest Salvo in Federal Government's Offshore Drilling Push in California" - with free DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/propos...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
My ABA Journal Article on Quantum and the Law - "As billions flow into quantum research, lawyers try to keep up with regulatory, security implications" www.abajournal.com/web/article/...
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As billions flow into quantum research, lawyers try to keep up with regulatory, security implications
Nobel laureate physicist Richard Feynman famously said during a 1964 lecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “I think I can safely say that nobody
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
"State Task Force Releases Recommendations To Make Land Access More Equitable for California's Farmers" - with free CEB DailyNews sign-up - research.ceb.com/posts/state-...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
My feature on birthright citizenship and Trump v. Barbara in the @DC_Bar May/June issue of Washington Lawyer - p. 16 at - washingtonlawyer.dcbar.org/mayjune2026/...
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Washington Lawyer - May/June 2026
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"A 'Crucial Safeguard' of Individual Liberty: Berkeley Law's Amanda Tyler on the History – and Contemporary Relevance – of Habeas Corpus" research.ceb.com/posts/a-cruc...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
"A last and vital lesson of the conflict is that 'mowing the grass' — using blunt force against immediate threats with no long-term plan for success — has only seeded the lawn with wider problems." Here’s How Trump Can Get Us Out of the Mess in Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/o...
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Opinion | Here’s How Trump Can Get Us Out of the Mess in Iran
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
" 'It Takes Many Individuals To Succeed': UCLA Law Professor Ann Carlson on How Los Angeles Beat Its Smog Problem" research.ceb.com/posts/it-tak...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"California Urges Supreme Court To Strike Down Trump's Executive Order on Birthright Citizenship" - with free DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/califo...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
"CARB's Greenhouse Gas Emissions Disclosure Rule Includes Controversial Exemption for the Insurance Sector" research.ceb.com/posts/carbs-...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
"Trump Administration Goes After Two California Cities' Natural Gas Infrastructure Bans" research.ceb.com/posts/trump-...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
"Here's Where California Stands on Clean Truck Adoption So Far in 2026, After Last Year's Federal Setbacks" - with DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/heres-...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"After EPA Revokes 2009 Endangerment Finding for Greenhouse Gas Emissions, California Vows to Sue" - with CEB sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/after-...
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
"The ruling was the fourth legal setback that the Trump administration has suffered in its quest to throttle the country’s nascent offshore wind industry." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/c...
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Judge Revives Wind Farm That Trump Halted Off Martha’s Vineyard
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
"American Geophysical Union Conference Highlights Air Pollution From LA Fires, Central Valley Water Rights" research.ceb.com/posts/americ...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"With the U.S. Pulling Out of Global Climate Agreements, California Filled the Void at COP30" - CEB DailyNews/ClimateBrief article at - research.ceb.com/posts/with-t...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
"California Officials, Experts Consider Link Between Science and Democracy Amid Federal Funding Cuts" - DailyNew/ClimateBrief article, with free CEB sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/califo...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
"CARB Approves New Landfill Methane Regulation Effective January 2027" research.ceb.com/posts/carb-a...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"Ironically, the Trump Administration's Rollback of California's Emissions Waivers Could Put the State Out of Conformity With Federal Air Quality Standards" -with free CEB DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/ironic...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
"The laureates showed that the macroscopic quantum world could be brought under experimental control. And their work laid the foundations for the superconducting qubits that are at the cutting edge of quantum computing research today."
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Superconducting quantum circuits: At the heart of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
Although motivated by the fundamental exploration of the weirdness of the quantum world, the prizewinning experiments have led to a promising branch of quantum computing technology.
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
"CARB Board's October Meeting Focuses on Air Quality Standards, ZEV Commitment, and Methane Detection" research.ceb.com/posts/carb-b...
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Ken Caldeira @kencaldeira.com · 10/11/2025
We did this paper together when she was a visiting student in our lab. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Combustion of available fossil fuel resources sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Fossil-fuel resources are sufficient to eliminate the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
And an expert on tipping points !
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
My Washington Lawyer Human Rights Law contribution on p. 29 and co-contribution on Environmental Law p.10 in this issue's Year in Review
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"AB 93 Was Vetoed, But Assemblymember Diane Papan Says Legislative Work on Data Centers' Water Consumption Will Continue" - with free DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/ab-93-...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
"FTC Antitrust Investigation of California’s Clean Truck Effort Is Latest Federal Blow to State Climate Policy" - with free DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/ftc-an...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
++ " 'Our system will enable us to realize further exotic quantum states of motions and to elucidate how quantum mechanics should behave at macroscopic scales and become classical' " physicsworld.com/a/physicists...
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Physicists apply quantum squeezing to a nanoparticle for the first time – Physics World
Demonstration could shed light on the nature of the classical-quantum transition for small objects
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
"ClimateBrief: California Assemblymember Diane Papan on AB 93, Her Bill That Would Require Data Centers to Report Water Use" research.ceb.com/posts/climat...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
"ClimateBrief: Despite Strong Federal Headwinds, California Continues to Push for Offshore Wind Development" - with free DailyNews sign-up at- research.ceb.com/posts/climat...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
"But, never say never. Physicists have been able to create experimental analogues of some thought experiments, so who knows what the future will bring." @physicsworld.bsky.social physicsworld.com/a/indefinite...
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Indefinite causal order: how quantum physics is challenging our understanding of cause and effect – Physics World
Quantum mechanics allows events to occur with indefinite causal order, as Hamish Johnston discovers
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
"ClimateBrief: Trump's EPA Wants to Revoke the Legal Basis for Federal Emissions Rules. Experts Say California Will Step In to Fill the Void" - CEB DailyNews at - research.ceb.com/posts/climat...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"On the Law of War and Peace at 400 - Reflecting on Grotius' Blueprint for Global Order" - my mini-feature in the Sept./Oct. Washington Lawyer magazine p.14 at washingtonlawyer.dcbar.org/septemberoct...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My DailyNews Q and A with UCLA Law Professor Richard L. Hasen on Gerrymandering in California and the Future of Voting Rights - with free sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/ucla-l...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
On Salton Sea/Lithium Valley - "ClimateBrief: So Far, the Trump Administration Seems Friendly to Geothermal Energy and Critical Minerals Projects" - with free CEB DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/climat...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
"ClimateBrief: CARB Board's July Meeting Strikes Defiant Note, Touts Environmental Justice Achievements" - with free CEB DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/climat...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
What an experience just to read and view this story! 15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. wapo.st/4m81PJf
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15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free.
The removal of four dams finally made a descent of the Klamath possible. These Indigenous kayakers became the first to attempt it.
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"ClimateBrief: As Temperatures Get Hotter, California Launches New Public Tool to Help People Prepare for Extreme Heat" research.ceb.com/posts/climat...
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
On the the recent NASEM report, "ClimateBrief: Addressing the Air Pollution Problem in California's Owens Valley, Dried Up by Decades of Water Diversions to LA" - with free CEB DailyNews sign-up at - research.ceb.com/posts/climat...
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