The Biden administration on Wednesday said it would waive a 100-year-old law designed to protect the U.S. shipbuilding industry to allow a foreign-registered ship to deliver 300,000 barrels of diesel to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico.Local leaders had been pushing Washington as a BP tanker was halted for days off the island amid legal wrangling.The result was growing anger at the way the 1920 Jones Act prevented desperately needed fuel from reaching Puerto Rico and its shattered energy grid.
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