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: The Death and Resurrection of CAGOP

June 11, 2024 6:36 amJune 11, 2024 6:41 am

California’s GOP is dead. Candidates for state office rarely gain more than 40 percent of the vote, and GOP representation in the State Senate stands at half that, 20 percent (8 seats out of 40), and in the State Assembly 21 percent (17...

Ringside: Forest Thinning Adds Millions of Acre Feet to California’s Water Supply

June 6, 2024 2:45 amJune 6, 2024 2:46 am

Practical solutions to California’s energy and water shortages will always have a better chance of being implemented if they adhere to the limitations placed upon them by the climate lobby. Thankfully there are numerous solutions, strategic in their impact, that...

Ringside: The Abundance Mindset

May 30, 2024 2:45 amMay 30, 2024 2:46 am

If energy powers modern civilization, then water gives it life. And in California, for at least the last 20 years, with escalating severity, life has been tough. There isn’t enough water to go around. Water scarcity is not being forced...

Ringside: The Crossroads of Kern County

May 24, 2024 2:45 amMay 24, 2024 2:46 am

With chronic uncertainty over water allocations for farm irrigation, and relentless and escalating regulatory assaults on its oil industry, the biggest economic sectors of Kern County are threatened. The irony is thick. Food and fuel are the prerequisites for civilization...

Ringside: Only Unity Can Challenge Environmentalism, Inc.

May 16, 2024 7:19 amMay 16, 2024 7:19 am

The California Environmental Quality Act was passed by the state legislature in 1971. At that time, it was the first legislation of its kind in the nation, if not the world. Its original intent was to “inform government decision makers and...

Ringside: Water Czars Ignore Solutions to Scarcity

May 9, 2024 2:55 amMay 9, 2024 2:56 am

The Delta Tunnel proposal exemplifies California’s political dysfunction. It will probably never get built, but it promises to dominate all discussions of major state and federal spending on water infrastructure for the next decade, preventing any other big ideas from...

Ringside: The Case for Oil Drilling in California

April 30, 2024 2:55 amApril 30, 2024 2:56 am

The regulatory war on oil production in California is well documented. The motivations of California’s state legislature in some cases may be well intentioned, but the regulations coming down right now are designed to destroy the oil industry in the...