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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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 […]
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 […]