9th Circuit Won’t Rehear Decision Affirming Youths’ Climate Change Suit Dismissal

( August 19, 2026, 11:23 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied a group of minors’ and young adults’ petition for rehearing en banc seeking review of a panel’s affirmance of the dismissal of a climate change lawsuit filed against President Donald J. Trump and a litany of federal officials over a series of executive orders designed to increase fossil fuel production....