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Travis Fisher Helps Coordinate Department of Energy Report on Climate Policy

When Secretary of Energy Chris Wright assembled the Climate Working Group to assess the latest peer-reviewed literature and data about climate change, he called on Cato’s Travis Fisher to serve as a liaison and help coordinate the 150-page report. Fisher, who held various roles at the Department of Energy before joining Cato as the director of energy and environmental policy studies, noted that the report “shed light on some inconvenient truths that cut against the prevailing narrative that climate change is an existential threat.”

Small Businesses Victorious in Challenge to Trump’s Tariffs Led by Ilya Somin

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling to strike down President Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, ruling in favor of five small businesses that were represented by the Liberty Justice Center and Ilya Somin, the B. Kenneth Simon Chair in Constitutional Studies at Cato. Free Society profiled one of those small businesses in the last issue, and Cato scholars filed a supportive amicus brief. The 7–4 majority, which cited Cato’s brief, wrote that the tariffs “assert an expansive authority” that is “beyond the authority delegated to the President” by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. The Supreme Court will hear arguments about this case in November; Cato scholars will sign three amicus briefs for it.

Jones Act Reform Legislation Draws on Colin Grabow’s Recommendations

Research by Colin Grabow, associate director of Cato’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, helped shape a new bill to reform the Jones Act. The Merchant Marine Allies Partnership Act, introduced by Reps. Ed Case (D‑HI) and Jim Moylan (R‑GU), would allow ships built in allied countries to be used in domestic commerce, exempt US vessels repaired in allied shipyards from a 50 percent tariff, and implement other reforms to spur competition and liberate maritime trade.

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