Washington (Platts)--27Nov2012/528 pm EST/2228 GMT

A three-judge panel with the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected a Alaskan village's request that it rehear a suit it filed against the country's largest energy producers, blaming them for global warming.

In its suit, the Native Alaskan village of Kivalina asked that the companies be ordered to pay the cost of relocating the town because the coastal community is being threatened by rising sea levels blamed on greenhouse gas pollution.

Kivalina named in its suit ExxonMobil, BP, Shell, American Electric Power, Duke Energy and Peabody Energy among the more than 20 large energy producers responsible for warming. The Inupiat Eskimo village was seeking millions of dollars for relocation under the public nuisance law.

In rejecting the original suit in September, the court ruled that under a 2011 Supreme Court order the Clean Air Act is the appropriate statute for addressing GHG emissions.

--Cathy Cash, cathy_cash@platts.com

--Edited by Jeff Barber, jeff_barber@platts.com

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