** Hunters are up in arms over potential federal public land sales included in a U.S. Senate budget bill. Prominent groups like the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, Wyoming’s Muley Fanatic Foundation, and The Boone And Crockett Club all blasted the proposal.
** Europe will need to step up its role in space as NASA’s budget falls and the U.S. agency focuses its resources on sending humans to the Moon and Mars, says acting NASA Administrator Janet Petro.
** Phillips 66 released its 2025 Sustainability and People Report today, demonstrating the company’s approach to helping supply the world’s growing energy needs while advancing projects to reduce emissions and foster growth.
** Chevron U.S.A. Inc., a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation and Halliburton jointly developed a new process that enables closed-loop, feedback-driven completions in Colorado. This intelligent fracturing process combines automated stage execution with subsurface feedback to optimize delivery of energy into the wellbore without relying on human intervention.
** Exxon Mobil Corporation has received notice of an unsolicited mini-tender offer by TRC Capital Investment Corporation to purchase up to 1 million shares of ExxonMobil common stock, which represents approximately 0.023 percent of the shares outstanding as of the June 9, 2025 offer date. ExxonMobil recommends that stockholders do not tender their shares in response to TRC’s offer because the offer has a conditional market price for ExxonMobil’s shares of $99.06 each and is subject to numerous other conditions.
** Veolia opens one of the largest PFAS treatment plants in the U.S., delivering high-quality drinking water to Over 100,000 Delaware residents. The Stanton Water Treatment Plant will remove regulated PFAS compounds from drinking water and ensure high-quality drinking water for over 100,000 residents, fully meeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s PFAS regulations.
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** LNG Canada is potentially hours away from its first production of LNG, marking the country’s entry into the sector with the only LNG terminal on the North American West Coast. Located at Kitimat, British Columbia, the facility is expected to produce its first LNG in three or four days, Reuters reported on June 18.
** Two years after France’s EcoPulse hybrid-electric propulsion demonstrator made its public debut at the 2023 Paris Air Show, some of the companies involved have formed a consortium to define a hybrid-electric powertrain architecture for general aviation aircraft.
** As Indigenous participation in Canada’s $185 billion energy sector continues to grow – with over 300 Nations actively involved in oil and gas, renewables, hydro, Nuclear and infrastructure, they’ve created a majority Indigenous-owned partnership named “spark” to ignite relationships, investment and innovation.
** Canada’s Volt Lithium Corp. announced that shareholders approved the company name change to “LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners Inc.” at the annual and special meeting of shareholders of the Company held June 18, 2025.