The Indian Health Service says it will fully implement the move to mercury-free alternatives by 2027. Already, the percentage of the Indian Health Service’s roughly 2.8 million patient user population receiving them has declined from 12% in 2005 to 2% in 2023, the latest year of available data, agency documents show.

Passage of the county’s Climate Action Plan last year prompted a discussion about oil and gas production and the economic, health, and environmental benefits of an oil phase out. On May 13, 2025, Santa Barbara County supervisors voted to phase out oil ...

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Houston ISD will phase out popular programs at four magnet campuses next school year, despite intense community pushback. In an unanimous vote, HISD's state-appointed Board of Managers approved plans Thursday to phase out five programs at Heights, Kashmere ...

is your neighborhood reporter for Flour Bluff and the South Side. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — The U.S. Mint is already slowing down the issuance of pennies, according to Dr. Patrick Crowley, a professor of economics at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the coming weeks, the EU will decide whether to phase out its remaining Russian fossil fuel imports by early 2027 — or give itself another year. Whichever deadline it sets, the bloc ...

When the federal government starts coming apart at its fiscal seams, Social Security will be the first thing to unravel. It is among the country’s largest financial challenges at over $50 trillion in unfunded obligations — Medicare is the largest.

A Morgan Stanley survey of institutional investors managing tens of trillions of dollars shows capital is already behaving as if a fossil fuel phaseout is underway. Not through headlines or pledges, but through mandates, risk models and capital allocation ...

Sequoia Union High School District Superintendent Crystal Leach is recommending TIDE Academy to ultimately close, but the Board of Trustees will be tasked with deciding on what campus the phase-out of students will be on Wednesday. Ahead of the board ...

The Maui Planning Commission voted against recommending the creation of two new hotel zones for vacation rentals. The proposal would need to pass by a two-thirds vote at the council in order to move forward.