POLITICO Pro • 3rd March 2026

POLITICO Pro: Here’s why Trump isn’t looking at the Strategic Petroleum Reserve — yet

Despite a spike in oil prices since the U.S. attack on Iran, the Trump administration is not currently considering tapping its government oil stockpile. SPR inventories currently sit at 415 million barrels, just 5 percent higher than when Trump took office and well below the 638 million barrels at the beginning of the Biden administration, according to Energy Information Administration data.

POLITICO • 2nd March 2026

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.

POLITICO Pro • 24th February 2026

E&E News: Where the ‘Fork’ took a bite out of EPA

President Donald Trump’s mass resignation plan took a sledgehammer to EPA’s premier research hub as scientists and engineers accepted his offer to leave.

E&E News by POLITICO • 12th January 2026

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.

POLITICO Pro • 22nd December 2025

POLITICO Pro: Checking in on EPA's progress delivering the 'the biggest deregulatory action in US history'

The Environmental Protection Agency is on the verge of finishing the first major tranche of what Administrator Lee Zeldin in March splashily announced as “the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”

POLITICO • 10th October 2025

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.

POLITICO • 7th October 2025

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.

POLITICO • 15th April 2025

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.

POLITICO • 14th April 2025

Trump's economic tumult tests the oil industry's patience

The industry’s reluctance to publicly criticize Trump is noteworthy given the pain it is feeling from the import taxes he’s hiked on the steel that oil companies need for new pipelines and projects, as well as the anger from the foreign buyers of their energy that his trade war has generated.“Trump’s tariff gamble places energy dominance at a crossroads,” said one oil company executive who had donated to the Trump election campaign and was granted anonymity to speak frankly on the subject. “Stri...

POLITICO • 29th January 2025

‘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.

POLITICO • 25th August 2024

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...

POLITICO • 12th August 2024

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...

POLITICO • 16th July 2024

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.

NBC News • 21st April 2024

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.

NBC News • 16th April 2024

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.

NBC News • 3rd March 2024

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.

NBC News • 4th January 2024

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.

NBC News • 4th November 2023

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?

NBC News • 17th October 2023

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.

Local News Matters • 3rd August 2023

Price reduced: Here's where Bay Area housing values decreased the most over the past year

Bay Area cities have experienced some of the biggest drops in home prices across the country, according to a new study evaluating typical home values from May 2022 to May 2023.

According to the report by investment advising company SmartAsset, San Francisco was the largest city in the top 10 list for price reductions, with home values falling by 13 percent from 2022 to 2023. Palo Alto and Dublin saw similar declines. The company used Zillow Home Value Index data from May 2022 and May 2023 for s