This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.
The Trump administration’s ever-changing policies on tariffs and trade have injected chaos into the global energy economy.
On Wednesday, a federal court blocked President Donald Trump from being able to adopt tariffs under an emergency-powers law. The administration is appealing the ruling. This sets up additional legal wrangling in addition to the conflicts over trade that were already happening.
Analysts at the research firm Wood Mackenzie gave themselves the task of predicting where US tariff policy may be heading. The result is a report issued this week, “Trading Cases: Tariff