Author: Dempsey May Ayuco

Health officials warn unvaccinated residents face growing risk as cases climb across the state. Two residents of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have died after contracting measles, marking the first fatalities linked to the disease in the United States this year and the first recorded in the state in 35 years. Both victims were unvaccinated, according to the Pennsylvania Department of Health, which confirmed the deaths this week. The losses underscore a troubling resurgence of a disease many Americans had come to view as a relic of the past. Measles was declared eliminated from the United States in 2000, but declining vaccination…

Despite the White House pushing hard for a coal revival, solar energy quietly crossed a threshold that energy analysts say could reshape the nation’s power grid for decades to come. Solar Crosses a Historic Threshold For the first time in U.S. history, solar energy generated more electricity than coal in a single month. According to data released Wednesday by Ember, a global energy think tank, solar accounted for 12.8% of the nation’s electricity supply in May — edging past coal’s 12.2%, which marked the fourth-lowest monthly share coal has ever recorded. In April, coal generation hit an all-time monthly low…

A fast-moving blaze near Oceanside triggers evacuation warnings for neighborhoods, a golf course, and an animal shelter that had already fled another fire days earlier. A brush fire that ignited Wednesday morning on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton escalated rapidly, scorching approximately 150 acres within two hours and prompting evacuation warnings for several communities bordering the sprawling military installation in San Diego County. The fire was first reported around 10:30 a.m. in the November Training Area near Wire Mountain Housing, according to Camp Pendleton officials. Within an hour, Oceanside police confirmed the blaze had already consumed roughly 75 acres. By…