Mealey's (August 5, 2020, 11:06 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Aug. 4 denied Chevron Corp.'s petition for an en banc rehearing of arguments challenging a ruling remanding lawsuits brought by four California municipalities over infrastructure damages caused by climate change on the ground that federal officer jurisdiction was not established because the defendant energy companies were not acting under the government when extracting and producing fossil fuels (San Mateo, et al. v. Chevron Corp., et al., No. 18-15499, 9th Cir.)....