A Fact-Based Appraisal of California’s Energy Strategy

By Edward Ring
07/29/2026
The 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....

TAGS: energy, energy production, fossil fuel, Green Energy

California AG Sues Big Oil

By Edward Ring
10/19/2023
“Don’t lie, don’t deceive, don’t hide from the public clean energy pathways forward, and don’t hide from the public the existential threat that fossil fuels created in terms of climate change and extreme weather and damage to the environment.” — California Attorney General Rob Bonta, PBS interview, Sept. 20, 2023 Bonta’s statement exposes the inherent and...

TAGS: fossil fuel, wildfires