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Author: Edward Ring

Edward Ring is the director of water and energy policy for the California Policy Center, which he co-founded in 2013 and served as its first president. The California Policy Center is an educational non-profit focused on public policies that aim to improve California’s democracy and economy. He is also a senior fellow of the Center for American Greatness. Ring is the author of two books: "Fixing California - Abundance, Pragmatism, Optimism" (2021), and "The Abundance Choice - Our Fight for More Water in California" (2022).

Ringside: Is California Ready to Kill Its Oil Industry?

November 8, 2024   3:55 amNovember 8, 2024   3:56 am
California’s state legislature is determined to eliminate fossil fuel as soon as possible, with oil at the top of the list. This goal is shared by the Governor and Attorney General, along with leadership and staff at every one of...
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Ringside: Ways California Can Have Abundant Water

October 31, 2024   2:58 amOctober 31, 2024   2:59 am
A few years ago a group of volunteers, myself included, attempted to qualify a state ballot initiative called “The Water Infrastructure Funding Act.” Those of us involved with this project remain convinced that had it qualified for the ballot and...
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Ringside: Ways California Can Have Abundant Energy

October 24, 2024   2:55 amOctober 24, 2024   2:56 am
With the right combination of new policies in California, abundant energy ought to be just around the corner. Nearly all new energy development can be privately financed, and it can be delivered while creating tens of thousands of high paying...
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Ringside: Would Suing the Bureaucracy Bring Us More Water?

October 17, 2024   6:30 amOctober 17, 2024   6:31 am
There isn’t a major water project in California in the last 30 years or more that hasn’t been subject to relentless litigation. Usually the litigators represent powerful environmentalist organizations, sometimes they represent social justice groups, and sometimes they represent labor....
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Ringside: The Disruptive Potential of Photovoltaics

October 9, 2024   4:00 pmOctober 9, 2024   4:25 pm
Earlier this year the New York Times published an opinion piece “What Will We Do With Our Free Power?,” written by David Wallace Wells. The sheer optimism of the piece was a breath of fresh air. Rather than emphasizing the existential terror...
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Ringside: Time to Gut and Amend California’s Rogue Water Agencies

October 3, 2024   3:30 amOctober 3, 2024   3:31 am
In California today, we have given unelected state bureaucrats the power to make decisions that affect millions of people and cost billions of dollars, and there is almost no recourse. There is also very little public criticism of the decisions...
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Ringside: What’s Behind Newsom’s ‘Special Session’ on Gasoline Prices

September 25, 2024   5:11 pmSeptember 26, 2024   12:45 pm
By now most of the mega-majority Democrats in our state legislature understand basic facts about energy in California: We still derive 50 percent of our total energy from petroleum, and another 30 percent of our energy from natural gas. This...
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