9th Circuit Won’t Revisit Trade Groups’ Calif. Emissions Suit Intervention Denial

( August 31, 2026, 2:26 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals will not reconsider a decision affirming a California federal judge’s denial of intervention as a matter of right to two trade organizations that represent transportation and construction businesses in a lawsuit challenging a series of federal resolutions that eliminated Clean Air Act (CAA) preemption waivers for regulating greenhouse gas emissions for new motor vehicles....