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2026年8月11日 晚上8:47 UTC 更新于2小时前
Item 1 of 2 2010年7月29日，一名男子在纽约家得宝商店选购烤箱。路透社/香农·斯台普顿
[1/2]2010年7月29日，一名男子在纽约家得宝商店选购烤箱。路透社/香农·斯台普顿 购买授权，将在新标签页打开
8月11日（路透社）——美国联邦上诉法院周二废除了拜登政府时期制定的燃气和电动炉灶烤箱能效标准规则，称该机构不当绕过了公众意见征询程序。
在一份3票全票通过的裁决中，位于新奥尔良的美国第五巡回上诉法院支持了七个由共和党领导的州——路易斯安那州、密西西比州、蒙大拿州、内布拉斯加州、田纳西州、德克萨斯州和犹他州——这些州对能源部针对消费级炉灶和烤箱的“直接最终规则”提起了诉讼。
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这项2024年8月出台的规则旨在限制消费者在厨房电器上的能源使用量，并禁止一种被称为线性电源的老旧技术。
巡回法院法官安德鲁·奥尔德姆表示，能源部本不应快速推进该规则，因为他们清楚有多个州反对2023年出台类似能效标准的尝试。
他还驳斥该规则是前总统乔·拜登政府推动家用电器“价格更高且实用性更低”的举措之一。
直接最终规则通常仅适用于无争议的事项。
能源部未立即回应置评请求。
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目前尚不清楚特朗普政府是否仍会为该规则辩护。共和党籍前总统唐纳德·特朗普长期以来一直批评节能规则，能源部长克里斯·赖特上月承诺将永久限制那些“抬高成本并破坏消费者选择权”的家用电器能效强制标准。
规避争议
奥尔德姆是特朗普任命的法官，他表示能源部依赖了多个行业团体、“环保活动人士”以及加利福尼亚州、马萨诸塞州和纽约州对其拟议规则的支持。
这位法官称，“无法面不改色地辩称”这些由民主党领导的州能够公平代表整个美国的意见。
他还表示，能源部未考虑以能效为名使电器在技术上更复杂是否会降低可靠性或增加相关成本。
“上一届政府的燃气灶措施是其最具争议的能源提案之一，”奥尔德姆写道。“认为可以利用直接最终规则——一种专为共识式规则制定设计的机制——来规避所有争议，这是站不住脚的。”
巡回法院法官凯瑟琳娜·海恩斯和詹姆斯·何支持奥尔德姆的裁决。海恩斯是共和党籍总统乔治·W·布什任命的，何则是特朗普任命的。
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US appeals court voids Biden-era efficiency rule for stoves, ovens
2026-08-11T20:47:10.887Z / Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel
August 11, 2026 8:47 PM UTC Updated 2 hours ago
Item 1 of 2 A man shops for an oven at a Home Depot store in New York July 29, 2010. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton
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Aug 11 (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Tuesday struck down a Biden administration-era rule setting efficiency standards for gas and electric stoves and ovens, saying the agency improperly bypassed public comment procedures.
In a 3-0 decision, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled in favor of seven Republican-led states — Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas and Utah — that challenged the Department of Energy’s “direct final rule” for consumer-grade stoves and ovens.
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The August 2024 rule was intended to limit how much energy consumers use in kitchen appliances, and to ban an older technology known as linear power supplies.
Circuit Judge Andrew Oldham said the Energy Department should not have fast-tracked the rule, knowing that numerous states opposed a 2023 attempt to enact similar efficiency standards.
He also dismissed the rule as part of a push by former President Joe Biden’s administration to make home appliances “more expensive and less useful.”
Direct final rules are typically reserved for uncontroversial matters.
The Energy Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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It’s unclear whether the Trump administration would still defend the rule. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has long criticized energy conservation rules, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright pledged last month to permanently restrict efficiency mandates for home appliances that “raise costs and disrupt consumer choice.”
EVADING CONTROVERSY
Oldham, a Trump appointee, said the Energy Department relied on support for its proposed rule from several industry groups, “environmental activists,” California, Massachusetts and New York.
The judge said “it cannot be contended with a straight face” that those Democratic-led states fairly represented the entire country.
He also said the department failed to consider whether making appliances more technologically complex in the name of efficiency would reduce reliability or increase associated costs.
“The previous administration’s gas-stove measures were among its most controversial energy proposals,” Oldham wrote. “The idea that all that controversy could be elided using the DFR—a mechanism designed for consensus rulemaking—is untenable.”
Circuit Judges Catharina Haynes and James Ho joined Oldham’s decision. Haynes is an appointee of Republican President George W. Bush, and Ho was appointed by Trump.
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Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani
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