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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 4d

"FTC Antitrust Investigation of California’s Clean Truck Effort Is Latest Federal Blow to State Climate Policy"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · 5d

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" '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' "

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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 · 24d

"ClimateBrief: California Assemblymember Diane Papan on AB 93, Her Bill That Would Require Data Centers to Report Water Use"

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Sep 19

"ClimateBrief: Despite Strong Federal Headwinds, California Continues to Push for Offshore Wind Development"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Sep 9

"But, never say never. Physicists have been able to create experimental analogues of some thought experiments, so who knows what the future will bring."

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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 · Sep 5

"ClimateBrief: Trump's EPA Wants to Revoke the Legal Basis for Federal Emissions Rules. Experts Say California Will Step In to Fill the Void"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Sep 3

"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
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Aug 25

My DailyNews Q and A with UCLA Law Professor Richard L. Hasen on Gerrymandering in California and the Future of Voting Rights
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Aug 19

On Salton Sea/Lithium Valley -
"ClimateBrief: So Far, the Trump Administration Seems Friendly to Geothermal Energy and Critical Minerals Projects"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Aug 12

"ClimateBrief: CARB Board's July Meeting Strikes Defiant Note, Touts Environmental Justice Achievements"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Aug 8

What an experience just to read and view this story!

15 teens. 300 miles. One mighty ancestral river, running free. wapo.st/4m81PJf

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 · Jul 30

"ClimateBrief: As Temperatures Get Hotter, California Launches New Public Tool to Help People Prepare for Extreme Heat"

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Jul 21

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"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Jul 15

"ClimateBrief: California Leads on Tropical Forest Restoration Efforts Leading Up to November's 'Forest COP' in Brazil"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Jul 4

"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" (first edition, 1855)

Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Jul 1

My July/Aug. Washington Lawyer review of
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Natalie Jacewicz @njacewicz.bsky.social · Jun 24

Enjoyed discussing my work on wild #animal wellbeing with @richblaustein.bsky.social for this CEB ClimateBrief. The article also features Jim Salzman's work on #RightsofNature. research.ceb.com/posts/climat...

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · May 24

"ClimateBrief: New UC Berkeley Report Highlights Possibilities for Detecting and Reducing Methane Emissions By Satellite"

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · May 13

"ClimateBrief: California Cap-and-Trade: Legislation, New Regulations, and a Deal with Washington State Are All on the Table"
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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · May 6

"ClimateBrief: Trump Executive Order Targets State-Level Climate Policies, Including California's"

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · May 2

"ClimateBrief: State and Federal Laws, Combined With Cutting-Edge Conservation, Could Protect California Freshwater Species Under Climate Changes"
A new PPIC report outlines the law guiding "climate-smart" conservation.

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Apr 25

"ClimateBrief: SCOTUS Hears Arguments in Case Challenging the California Waiver"
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UCLA Emmett Institute @uclalawemmett.bsky.social · Apr 16

“The Constitution does not tolerate willful disobedience of judicial orders — especially by officials of a coordinate branch who have sworn an oath to uphold it,” Judge Boasberg wrote.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · Apr 16

BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that probable cause exists to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for willful violation of his March 15 orders regarding Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation and sets next steps toward possible prosecution.

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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
J.G.G., et al.,
Plaintiffs,
v. Civil Action No. 25-766 (JEB)
DONALD J. TRUMP, et al.,
Defendants.
MEMORANDUM OPINION
On the evening of Saturday, March 15, 2025, this Court issued a written Temporary
Restraining Order barring the Government from transferring certain individuals into foreign
custody pursuant to the Alien Enemies Act. At the time the Order issued, those individuals were
on planes being flown overseas, having been spirited out of the United States by the Government
before they could vindicate their due-process rights by contesting their removability in a federal
court, as the law requires. Trump v. J.G.G., 2025 WL 1024097, at *2 (U.S. Apr. 7, 2025) (per
curiam). Rather than comply with the Court’s Order, the Government continued the hurried
removal operation. Early on Sunday morning — hours after the Order issued — it transferred
two planeloads of passengers protected by the TRO into a Salvadoran mega-prison.
As this Opinion will detail, the Court ultimately determines that the Government’s
actions on that day demonstrate a willful disregard for its Order, sufficient for the Court to
conclude that probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt. The Court

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Rich Blaustein @richblaustein.bsky.social · Apr 16

"ClimateBrief: Rice Farming -- and a 1991 Agriculture Law -- Are Key in Conserving California's Biodiversity"
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SCOTUSblog @scotusblog.com · Apr 7

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis called the government's inadvertent deportation of the man to a notorious El Salvador prison a "grievous error."

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