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Rich Blaustein
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Science, environmental and legal journalist. Covers climate change, biodiversity, Earth sciences, physics, constitutional law. Posts/opinions are my own. [email protected]
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February 4, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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"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."

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Judge Revives Wind Farm That Trump Halted Off Martha’s Vineyard
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January 29, 2026 at 11:09 PM
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"American Geophysical Union Conference Highlights Air Pollution From LA Fires, Central Valley Water Rights"

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January 28, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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"With the U.S. Pulling Out of Global Climate Agreements, California Filled the Void at COP30"

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January 22, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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"California Officials, Experts Consider Link Between Science and Democracy Amid Federal Funding Cuts"
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January 14, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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"CARB Approves New Landfill Methane Regulation Effective January 2027"

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December 18, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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"Ironically, the Trump Administration's Rollback of California's Emissions Waivers Could Put the State Out of Conformity With Federal Air Quality Standards"

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December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"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."
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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December 4, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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"CARB Board's October Meeting Focuses on Air Quality Standards, ZEV Commitment, and Methane Detection"

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November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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We did this paper together when she was a visiting student in our lab.

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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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November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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And an expert on tipping points !
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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
Washington Lawyer - November/December 2025
Experience our interactive, profoundly engaging digital publication!
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November 9, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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"AB 93 Was Vetoed, But Assemblymember Diane Papan Says Legislative Work on Data Centers' Water Consumption Will Continue"
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October 28, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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"FTC Antitrust Investigation of California’s Clean Truck Effort Is Latest Federal Blow to State Climate Policy"
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October 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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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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October 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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"ClimateBrief: California Assemblymember Diane Papan on AB 93, Her Bill That Would Require Data Centers to Report Water Use"

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September 25, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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"ClimateBrief: Despite Strong Federal Headwinds, California Continues to Push for Offshore Wind Development"
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September 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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"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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September 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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"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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September 5, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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"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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September 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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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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August 25, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"ClimateBrief: So Far, the Trump Administration Seems Friendly to Geothermal Energy and Critical Minerals Projects"
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August 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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"ClimateBrief: CARB Board's July Meeting Strikes Defiant Note, Touts Environmental Justice Achievements"
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August 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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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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August 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"ClimateBrief: As Temperatures Get Hotter, California Launches New Public Tool to Help People Prepare for Extreme Heat"

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