** Iraq wants another U.S. company to replace Exxon as a shareholder in the West Qurna 1 field, one of the country’s largest after the supermajor leaves the country.
** Nearly 140 Democratic U.S lawmakers on Tuesday urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to quickly reinstate California’s right to set regulations for vehicle emissions, which was taken away by the Trump administration.
** House Democrats from some Western states are preparing to push for changes to a longstanding law that governs mining for copper, gold and other hardrock minerals on U.S.-owned lands, including making companies pay royalties on what they extract.
** The Port of Corpus Christi logged record results during the first six months of the year, reporting it moved more than 80 million tons of cargo. The largest gains came from a 72% year-over-year (YoY) increase in liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
** Electric car maker Tesla issued its Q2 earnings call Monday reporting it built and shipped 200,000 vehicles, a 151% increase over last year.
** The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday said it will set stricter requirements for how coal-fired power plants dispose of wastewater full of arsenic, lead and mercury, an important step in reversing one of the Trump administration’s major environmental rollbacks.
** A federal judge allows the developer of a proposed lithium mine in Nevada to go ahead with preliminary excavation, thereby denying opponents’ bid to stop the work on environmental grounds.
** Electric vehicle-manufacturer Falcon announces plans to build its final-assembly facility in Sheridan, Wyoming.
** Minnesota becomes the first state in the Midwest to adopt stricter tailpipe emissions standards and require automakers to put more zero-emission vehicles on sales lots.
** Police arrest 29 people who were protesting the Line 3 pipeline at an encampment in northern Minnesota. A Minnesota sheriff plans to appeal a judge’s order that local police must stop blocking access to property used as a camp for Line 3 protesters.