Insider Bureaucrats Sunk LNG Jones Act Waivers During Trump Admin

This is a sad and very angering tale. During the Trump administration, we were close to granting waivers for the Jones Act and its archaic restrictions on transporting LNG via ships that are not U.S.-built and crewed (see Trump Considers Waiving Jones Act to Allow Domestic LNG Shipments). But then, a month later, word came out that the effort to waive the Jones Act for LNG would not move forward (see Bummer: Trump Won’t Waive Jones Act for Domestic LNG Shipments). What happened? Through investigative work done by the Cato Institute, we now know that bureaucrats deep inside the Maritime Administration (MARAD), a Dept. of Transportation agency, worked with (colluded with) the water-transportation industry to thwart Jones Act waivers for LNG shipments.

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