5 charts show China’s oil dilemma after US strikes
Any new challenges in obtaining oil from the Persian Gulf could drive China to expand its reliance on Russian energy supplies.
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Oil and gas drilling permits surge 55% under Trump
The Trump administration’s efforts to boost the U.S. oil and gas industry resulted in a 55 percent increase in permits to drill on public lands in just under a year.
Oil drilling permits surge under Trump
The Bureau of Land Management approved 50 permits to drill on federal and Native American land in California between Jan. 20 and Oct. 7, 2025, nearly 13 times the four permits the agency greenlit during that same period in 2024, according to a POLITICO analysis of agency data.
12 million reasons to start talking about Tom Steyer
Environmental groups have largely laid off campaign spending so far as the field shakes out, but some early indications of broader preferences in the energy space have begun to emerge.
The government’s own data rebuts Trump’s claims about wind and solar prices
States that embrace renewable energy are far more likely to save money for electricity consumers than those relying on fossil fuels or nuclear power, a POLITICO analysis of federal and industry data shows — findings that undermine one of the Trump administration’s main justifications for its aggressive rollback of federal clean energy policies.
Nearly 90 percent of California data centers are operational
California has 277 data centers that are operational and 35 others planned or under construction; Virginia, meanwhile, has 372 already up and running and another 192 in the works.
Trump's EPA wages war over $20B in 'gold bars'
The nonprofits have already committed over $2.6 billion of the money to projects across the U.S., according to a POLITICO analysis of investments by five of the eight groups. But most of that is now halted.
Southern California, Sierra Nevada regions had largest jumps in FAIR Plan usage since 2020
The insurer of last resort has been absorbing much of the state’s highest-risk properties following the retreat by other insurers — long before the Los Angeles fires caused losses so great it said it would need to bill the entire market to pay out its claims.
‘We have to figure this out’: Rising flood risks delivers double blow to communities with housing shortages
POLITICO compared housing supply and flood-exposure data for 169 large metropolitan areas across 46 states and Washington, D.C. Roughly a quarter of these face elevated risk in both categories.
Rep. Maxine Waters plans to reintroduce a bill that would assess increasing wildfire risk
House Financial Services voted 47-2 in support of Waters’ Wildfire Insurance Coverage Study Act in the last Congress, but it did not receive a vote in the House. Waters told POLITICO’s Catherine Allen she doesn’t have a timeline for when she’ll reintroduce the bill but is “trying to push this as fast as we can.”
Among California tech donors, ‘hesitancy’ fades with Kamala Harris takeover
The tech industry plays a notable role in Harris’ support from her home state. Employees at Google and its parent company Alphabet ($262,000) made up the largest tech contributions, followed by Apple ($170,000) and Meta ($81,000).And her campaign is also poised to win back even more individual donors in the tech industry who supported her 2020 presidential run. More than 10,000 Californians contributed to Harris in 2019, but then did not donate when she was running as Biden’s vice president, acc...
The ballot measures racking up small-dollar donations
LANDLORDS LEND A HAND — Two committees may be on their way to doing one of the toughest things in ballot-measure politics: building a fundraising base of small donors.The anti-rent-control “No on 33” and the pro-schools-bond “Yes on Proposition 2” campaigns have each received notable support from donations of $1,000 or less, according to a POLITICO analysis of contributions through the first half of 2024.Business interests have marshaled a total of $26 million to defeat the rent-control initiati...
Breed's lead
BREED’S LEAD: San Francisco Mayor London Breed surged ahead in new polling with 28 percent of voters saying they would rank her in first place in November’s ranked-choice mayoral election, up from 18 percent six months ago — and more than any of her challengers.
‘I was angry at first’: Maxine Waters on Biden's withdrawal and her support for Harris
Rep. Maxine Waters is now fully behind Kamala Harris' White House bid and has some advice for how the vice president should confront Donald Trump.
Republicans hold cash advantage in 6 of California's 10 swing races
Republican Steve Garvey outraised Democratic rival Rep. Adam Schiff from April through June, a surprise fundraising win in the former MLB star’s longshot bid for U.S. Senate. But a deeper look at second-quarter fundraising numbers underscore Garvey’s status as a political novice. Unlike Schiff, Garvey had to build his fundraising machine from scratch in a deep-blue state, and it shows: Schiff has outraised Garvey over the campaign cycle, accumulating about $41 million compared to Garvey’s $11 million as of June 30.
Public school enrollment in the U.S. slipping as alternatives gain political support
More and more, parents are opting America’s children out of public school. The share of children ages 5 to 17 enrolled in public schools fell by almost 4 percentage points from 2012 to 2022, an NBC News analysis of Census Bureau data found, even as the overall population grew.
The Mexican state closest to Arizona bans most abortions, setting up a regional void
I created a first-of-its-kind map of abortion laws in each of the American and Mexican states along the border.
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Map: 29 million Americans live under new voter ID laws put in place since 2020
As an intern for NBC News Digital, I collected data on which states have new voter ID requirements since 2020 and spoke with experts about the impact of these laws ahead of the 2024 Super Tuesday primary elections.
The housing market’s deep slump, in five charts
Home sales have dropped this year, as high prices, high borrowing costs and a low supply of available homes have combined to send potential buyers to the sidelines.
Map: The states in favor of daylight saving time all year long
In the past six years, 19 states have made efforts to move to year-round daylight saving time. So what’s in the way?
Chart: Who Republicans supported in the first round
As part of the NBC News live updates for the house speaker election, I tracked first-round votes and created a chart for the live blog.
How long has the House been without a speaker?
The House of Representatives has been without a speaker for more than a week, leaving one of America’s branches of government effectively paralyzed as crises and a government shutdown loom.
Bay Area’s young voters are registering at lower rates. Organizers are combating this ahead of 2024 election
The 2020 Presidential Election produced some of the highest turnout of young voters and voters of color. But since the 2020 election, voter registration rates for people 18 to 25 have begun to decline in the Bay Area, and there remains a significant gap in voter turnout for people of color compared to white voters.
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