Bar the Shell-BG merger in April 2015, the value of oil and gas mergers  in the second quarter of 2015 was the lowest since 2008. [EIA]

Hawaii Governor David Ige has stated that he doesn’t support the sale of Hawaiian Electric to Florida-based NextEra Energy. [The Huffington Post]

A strategy pushed by former Alaska Governor Sean Parnell and current U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan to allow oil exploratory work in the off-limits Arctic National Wildlife Refuge has been rejected by a federal judge in Anchorage. [Alaska Dispatch News]