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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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 […]
How California Voters Could Surprise the Machine
/by Edward RingWith elections across the U.S. set for next week, the focus is on close races that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, along with who will become the next governor in 36 states. With so much at stake, it is understandable that election outcomes in California are not getting […]
California’s Looming Election Day Nightmare
/by Edward RingBy the time this is published, we will be within two weeks of Election Day. To be more descriptive, in California we might say that on November 3 we will reach the end of the first half. During election season’s second half, also lasting 30 days, trained professionals will busily count ballots, cure ballots, and […]
Save Our Lawns, Reform AB 1572
/by Edward RingCalifornians are within months, if not weeks, of getting what could be the most thorough statewide drenching in decades, as a “super” El Nino grows in the Pacific. Expect hundreds (plural) of millions of acre feet of water to dump onto watersheds across the state this winter, as California experiences its fifth year in a […]
Induced Demand is a Prerequisite for Abundance
/by Edward RingNot quite two years ago an influential book, “Abundance,” by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson challenged the conventional liberal approach to achieving affordability and equity. They argued that economic and social goals could more effectively be realized by achieving abundance than by redistributing existing wealth and resources. To this end, the authors identified well-intentioned but […]