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A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Monday reversed [opinion, PDF] a district court order that required the Tennessee Valley Authority [official website] to dig up and remove a large amount of coal ash at one of its power plants, holding that the Clean Water Act [materials] does not regulate pollutants that reach navigable waters through groundwater. The appeal concerned a US District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee [official website] order requiring the TVA to "fully excavate" the coal ash ponds of its Gallatin Fossil Plant.
The US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit Court on Monday blocked a lower court ruling [opinion, PDF] that expanded the types of documents voters could use to prove their identity for elections in North Dakota, siding with state officials over Native American tribal members. North Dakota's legislature passed a law [text, PDF] in 2017 that required voters to provide a valid form of identification to the proper election official before receiving a ballot.
Erin Gabriel was already pretty busy before Donald Trump was elected president. All three of her children are autistic, and her youngest, an 8-year-old girl named Abby, is also deaf, blind and nonverbal, and suffers from seizures.
The Department of Education has the authority to extend enrollment requirements for school loan discharges if there are "exceptional circumstances," which is what should happen for students at the now-shuttered Charlotte School of Law, say a group of North Carolina U.S. Congress members. The letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, dated Oct. 26, is signed by U.S. Reps.
Efforts to end Pennsylvania's 18-day stalemate over how to pay for a $32 billion budget took an unexpected turn Tuesday when House Republican leaders abruptly retreated from discussions over raising taxes to help stitch together the state government's threadbare finances. The new stance left Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf further away from an agreement to settle his third budget and more clearly facing the prospect of having to set at least $1.5 billion aside to balance the budget bill he let become law last week.
Michael Hayden had a long and distinguished career serving his country that stretches back to the late 1960s when he was commissioned through the University of Pittsburgh's Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps program.
University of Pittsburgh law student Ashley Hogan and I were ready to board our flight to Kuwait when we saw the news. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had refused to stay the injunction imposed by a Seattle federal judge against President Donald Trump's executive order banning the entry of people from seven predominantly Muslim countries into the United States.
The arrival of the spring tax bills reminds me that Americans are not getting their money's worth from those who govern us on the city, state or federal level. Let's start with Pittsburgh.