Edward Ring is the director of energy and water policy with the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. He is also a senior fellow with the Center for American Greatness, and a regular contributor to the National Review and the California Globe. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Orange County Register, and other media outlets.
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Large Scale Desalination Could Help Resolve Colorado River Shortage
/by Edward RingThe operating agreements that govern Colorado River allocations expire at the end of this year, and negotiations between the seven states that share the water are stalled. With the federal government poised to step in and impose an agreement it formulates, the states — Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming in the upper basin, and Arizona, […]
Dredging the Delta Can Prevent a Catastrophe
/by Edward RingIt’s January 2027, and for the last few months, a super El Nino has already delivered torrential rains to the Pacific Coast of North America. California’s reservoirs have been releasing record quantities of water to preserve space for the next round of precipitation but their remaining capacity to absorb runoff is dangerously low. From the peaks […]
U.S. Congress! Leave Time Alone
/by Edward RingThere’s a reason our clocks are switched to daylight saving time every spring and returned to standard time every fall. But apparently nobody told that to the U.S. House of Representatives, which on July 14 passed the Sunshine Protection Act. If the U.S. Senate also approves this legislation, it will make daylight saving time permanent. That […]
Commercializing Hydrocarbon Production from Air and Water
/by Edward RingWhenever evaluating a new energy technology, caution is warranted. During what was arguably the first big cleantech boom around 2009, schemes were sold to angel investors thrilled to find a hot sector in the wake of the recent financial crash. Almost anything that sounded good got funded. Some of these schemes, such as a “clean” […]
The Speech Zohran Mamdani Should Have Made
/by Edward RingZohran Mamdani delivered a speech on July 3 to the entire nation that has earned justifiable criticism. If anything, his critics were easy on him. Watch this video explaining the origins of the democratic socialists in the U.S. Fact-check it. Then let this reality sink in: Zohran Mamdani is a leading avatar of an alliance of […]