2026-08-31 11:39:45 UTC / 路透社
作者：贾勒特·伦肖
2026年8月31日 美国东部时间上午11:39 更新于20分钟前
- 消息人士称，EPA预计周一将宣布发放超过18亿加仑生物燃料豁免额度
- 豁免申请者包括马拉松石油和雪佛龙旗下的炼油厂
- 白宫推动扩大豁免计划，以应对伊朗冲突期间的汽油价格上涨
8月31日（路透社）——据两位知情人士透露，特朗普政府最早将于周一批准扩大美国炼油厂的生物燃料混合义务豁免额度，以此缓解汽油价格上行压力。
农业州议员曾敦促白宫不要将豁免额度扩大至今年年初公布的水平之上，而炼油厂则将豁免作为降低燃油生产成本的手段。农民担心豁免计划会减少对其农作物的需求，双方对于扩大豁免能否切实大幅降低汽油价格也存在分歧。
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消息人士称，美国环境保护署（EPA）预计将为本年度的一批小型炼油厂发放可再生燃料额度豁免，总规模超过18亿加仑。豁免申请者包括石油巨头马拉松石油（MPC.N）和雪佛龙（CVX.N）旗下的炼油设施。
这一规模约为该机构年初公布的本年度计划豁免额度的两倍。
消息人士透露，在农业州议员及其盟友的密集游说后，EPA还正考虑一项计划，通过重新调整2027年的生物燃料配额，新增约5亿加仑可再生燃料额度（或更多），以抵消扩大豁免给农民带来的损失。
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EPA本月早些时候曾表示，将在8月底前对尚未裁决的豁免申请做出决定，但消息人士告诉路透社，决定可能推迟至周二。
白宫将有关最新豁免计划的问题转交EPA答复，EPA未回应置评请求。
据知情人士透露，这项扩大豁免计划是白宫整体应对汽油价格举措的一部分。近期美国与伊朗的冲突导致汽油价格飙升，政府一直在寻求缓解加油站压力的办法，同时希望避免在11月国会选举前遭到农民的政治反对。
这项决定将使唐纳德·特朗普总统陷入石油炼油行业和生物燃料行业之间围绕国家《可再生燃料标准》的长期斗争中。该标准要求炼油厂将越来越多的乙醇和其他可再生燃料掺入汽油和柴油中。
农业州议员警告称，大范围豁免可能会抑制农作物需求，破坏生物燃料行业；而炼油厂则辩称，当合规额度价格高昂时，强制混合义务会带来高昂成本。
由国会制定的《可再生燃料标准》要求炼油厂和燃料进口商在国家交通燃料供应中混入指定数量的可再生燃料，否则需购买称为“可再生识别码（RINs）”的额度凭证。
小型炼油厂若遵守该义务会导致不成比例的经济困难，可申请豁免。负责管理该项目的EPA在豁免审批的宽松程度上，一直面临来自炼油和农业两大行业的政治压力。
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US expected to approve expanded biofuel waivers as early as Monday, sources say
2026-08-31 11:39:45 UTC / Reuters
By Jarrett Renshaw
August 31, 2026 11:39 AM UTC Updated 20 mins ago
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- EPA expected Monday to announce more than 1.8 billion biofuel waiver credits, sources say
- Applicants for waivers include refineries owned by Marathon Petroleum and Chevron
- White House pushed expanded waivers to help manage gas prices during Iran conflict
Aug 31 (Reuters) – The Trump administration is expected as early as Monday to approve an expanded volume of exemptions for U.S. oil refiners from biofuel blending requirements, according to two people familiar with the matter, as part of efforts to ease upward pressure on gas prices.
Farm-state lawmakers had pressed the White House not to expand the waivers above amounts flagged at the start of this year, although refiners have sought them as a means to lower fuel production costs. Farmers fear the waivers would reduce demand for their crops, while the two sides disagree on whether the expansion can actually cut gas prices significantly.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to issue waivers for the latest year to a group of small refineries covering more than 1.8 billion renewable fuel credits, the sources said. Applicants for the waivers include facilities owned by oil giants Marathon Petroleum MPC.N and Chevron CVX.N.
That would be roughly double the number of credits the agency initially said it was planning for the year.
Following an intense lobbying effort by farm-belt lawmakers and their allies, the EPA is also considering a plan to offset the harm to farmers from the expanded exemptions by reopening the 2027 biofuel quotas and adding roughly 500 million renewable fuel credits, or potentially more, the sources said.
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The EPA said earlier this month that it would make a decision on the pending exemption requests by the end of August, but the decision could slip to Tuesday, the sources told Reuters.
The White House referred questions on the latest waiver issuance to the EPA, which did not respond to requests for comment.
The expanded plan is part of a broader White House effort to manage gasoline prices that have surged during the U.S. conflict with Iran, according to the people familiar with the matter. The administration has been looking for ways to ease pressure at the pump but is keen to avoid a political backlash from farmers ahead of November’s congressional elections.
The decision puts President Donald Trump in the middle of a longstanding fight between the oil refining and biofuel industries over the nation’s Renewable Fuel Standard, which requires refiners to blend increasing amounts of ethanol and other renewable fuels into gasoline and diesel.
Farm-state lawmakers have warned that broad exemptions could depress demand for crops and undermine the biofuel industry, while refiners argue that the mandates can impose steep costs when compliance credits are expensive.
The Renewable Fuel Standard, established by Congress, requires refiners and fuel importers to blend specified volumes of renewable fuels into the nation’s transportation fuel supply or purchase credits known as renewable identification numbers, or RINs.
Small refineries can seek exemptions from those requirements if complying would cause them disproportionate economic hardship. The EPA, which administers the program, has faced political pressure from both the refining and agricultural industries over how broadly to grant the waivers.
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Reporting By Jarrett Renshaw; Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Edmund Klamann
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