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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A Fact-Based Appraisal of California’s Net Zero Strategy
/by Edward RingThe Statistical Review of World Energy is arguably the most authoritative and comprehensive source publicly available for national and global energy statistics. And a funny thing happened between the report issued in 2024 and the report issued in 2025. “Renewables” as a percent of total energy consumed in 2023 was quietly lowered from 9.3 in the U.S. […]
Global and US Reliance on Fossil Fuel Unchanged in 25 Years
/by Edward RingSo far this century, worldwide energy use is up nearly 60 percent, and, as anyone living in Western industrialized nations knows all too well, we have spent trillions of dollars to “decarbonize” our economy. And guess what? Our dependence on fossil fuels is unchanged. To make this assertion, we may cite the world’s most authoritative […]
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 […]