** The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported more petroleum and natural gas was produced in the United States than in any other country during 2020 (a trend that began in 2014), despite year-on-year declines from the record-high production in 2019. U.S. petroleum and natural gas output in 2020 totaled 66.9 quadrillion British thermal units (quads), which was more than both Russia’s 45.5 quads and Saudi Arabia’s 26.5 quads of petroleum and natural gas production.
** BHP Group is considering getting out of oil and gas in a multibillion-dollar exit that would accelerate its retreat from fossil fuels, according to people familiar with the matter reported Bloomberg.
** Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Tuesday that a climate jobs proposal called the Civilian Climate Corps will be part of the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill that Senate Democrats plan to pass.
** The Bureau of Land Management turned 75 years old this week. It was July 16, 1946, when President Harry Truman merged the General Land Office and the Grazing Service to create BLM, which now proudly manages about 245 million acres of public landscapes for all Americans.
** Moscow, capital of one of the world’s biggest hydrocarbon exporters, plans to boost the use of electric cars by rolling out a raft of charging infrastructure in the coming years, the city’s top transport official told Reuters.
** A diesel fuel spill at the Canadian Pacific rail yard in Pig’s Eye Regional Park recently sent hazmat crews scrambling to keep hundreds of gallons of fuel from entering Pig’s Eye Lake.
** Exxon Mobil Corp’s new chief financial officer Kathyrn Mikells is the first woman and external hire to join the oil major’s management committee, as energy firms search to diversify their workforce in response to investor pressure.
** Local officials in Madison, Wisconsin, plan to introduce resolutions opposing Enbridge’s pipeline plans in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
** General Motors confirms plans that it will offer a full-size electric pickup truck “in due course.”
** The Alaska Federation of Natives and other groups sue the state over the defunding of a program that lowers electricity prices for rural communities.