Reuters: A U.S. Appeals Court reinstated on Monday a 2004 lawsuit by eight states and the city of New York against five of the largest U.S. utilities over their carbon dioxide emissions. The lawsuit was dismissed in October 2005 by U.S. District Court Judge Loretta Preska, who said the issue was a political question for Congress or the President, not the judiciary. Monday’s ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York said the judge “erred in dismissing two …