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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Water Abundance Means Thinking Big Again
/by Edward Ring“The problem we faced in the 1970s was that we were building too much and too heedlessly. The problem we face in the 2020s is that we are building too little and we are too often paralyzed by process.” This quote from the book “Abundance” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson perfectly encapsulates what has […]
California’s Democrat Machine Has Gone National
/by Edward RingThe 2026 midterms are now history, and clearly, the political pendulum has swung. From a Republican perspective, a wrecking ball would be a more apt metaphor. As of January 2027, Republicans will no longer be the majority party, and it isn’t even close. Just a glance at the state electoral map and the composition of […]
Calculating the Extreme Cost of Floating Offshore Wind Electricity
/by Edward RingFloating offshore wind is an economic and environmental abomination. That the California Coastal Commission, much less the Sierra Club or Greenpeace, cannot oppose this catastrophe in waiting is incredible. Their credibility as environmental watchdogs is zero. With political winds shifting yet again, what was stalled by the Trump administration is bound to acquire new momentum. […]
Energy, Population, and Prosperity
/by Edward RingIn 1968, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, a neo-Malthusian book that predicted worldwide mass starvation in the near future. Ehrlich was clearly wrong, since the global population is rapidly reaching its peak and, by most accounts, is on track to then rapidly decline. But at the time, Ehrlich conjured an image that […]
Practical Steps to Climate Resilience
/by Edward RingWith a mission to explore California’s energy and water future, it would be negligent to ignore California’s just released “Fifth Climate Change Assessment.” After all, climate, and its intimate cousin, carbon, are the foundations upon which every energy and water policy and project proposal in the state are evaluated. It may be heretical to say […]