** By Year 2025, Lexus will introduce 20 new vehicle models. These new cars will be BEVs, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), and hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). The LF-Z Electrified also “suggests the direction of… Lexus styling.” Lexus described the concept’s styling as having “strong proportions and distinctive appearance.”
** Canadian oil and gas company Whitecap Resources Inc said on Monday it will acquire Kicking Horse Oil & Gas Ltd, a privately-held indirect subsidiary of Quantum Energy Partners, for $239.08 million in a stock-and-cash deal.
** North Dakota’s attorney general calls on the Biden administration to consult with the state before taking any potential action on the Dakota Access pipeline.
** An Indiana auto factory that formerly produced Hummers will begin making electric delivery vehicles later this year.
** Thomas Farrell, who led Dominion Energy for 15 years, dies one day after retiring as the utility’s executive board chairman.
** Louisiana still holds more than $700,000 in class action settlement funds from the 2010 BP oil spill because people and businesses affected haven’t cashed their checks.
** President Joe Biden’s plan to expand electric vehicles faces challenges from the nation’s weak battery supply chain, which could be further complicated by a trade dispute involving a Korean battery maker’s plan to build a Georgia factory.
** A Wyoming bill designed to slow the closure of coal-fired power plants is headed to the governor, who backed the bill, and is likely to become law.
** The Interior Department is creating a unit focused on missing and murdered Indigenous women, a crisis linked to transient oil and gas workers living in “man camps” around pipelines.