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Enacted in 1920, the Jones Act prohibits tankers from hauling oil between U.S. ports unless those vessels are American-made, flagged and manned by a crew that is 75 percent U.S. citizens. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
Energy and Environment

The Jones Act dilemma: Cut regulations or boost jobs?

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The Trump administration is extending a waiver of the Jones Act to provide relief of fuel shortages resulting from Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. The Jones Act requires all shipping between U.S. ports be done by American-built and American-crewed vessels. (Joshua L. Jones/Athens Banner-Herald via AP)
Energy and Environment

Trump administration extends Jones Act waiver to relieve fuel shortages from hurricanes

Josh Siegel -
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The U.S. freight rail network accounts for 40 percent of all freight moved in the U.S. by ton-miles. (Ryan Soderlin/Omaha World-Herald via AP)
Op-Eds

New regs threaten to send shipping off the rails

Matthew Kandrach -
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Shipping News

Shipping News

John Psaropoulos -
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Shipping News
Magazine

Shipping News

John Psaropoulos -
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An oil refinery. If foreign vessels were able to ship U.S.-produced oil from Gulf Coast ports to East Coast refineries, it would save U.S. consumers about $1 billion annually. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)
Beltway Confidential

Meet the Jones Act: A 97-year-old regulatory law that’s costing you money

Mark J. Perry -
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Thanks to the last-minute approval of Norwegian Air International's foreign carrier permit by the Obama administration, the American airline industry now faces a threat very similar to the one responsible for destroying the once-mighty U.S. maritime shipping industry. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Op-Eds

Airline jobs threatened by carriers fleeing regulation after late Obama move

Dan Carey -
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The Murky World of Bottom-Feeding Shipping Registries

The Murky World of Bottom-Feeding Shipping Registries

Ann Marlowe -
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Whose Convenience?
Magazine

Whose Convenience?

Ann Marlowe -
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Islanders in Puerto Rico find themselves marooned by the Jones Act thanks to their disproportionate reliance on domestic maritime shipping, which is subjected to the act's mandates. (AP Photo)
Op-Eds

Scuttle the Jones Act

Mac Zimmerman -
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