CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation`s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine...
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A new report examines the way coal dust inhaled by miners is regulated as health and safety officials grapple with...
A new research letter published in a medical journal details hundreds of cases of black lung disease in the Central...
Three years after the Obama administration lowered the allowable limits for miners’ exposure to coal dust, the Trump administration has...
Alarmed that black lung disease routinely goes unreported decades after it was discovered among miners, federal mine safety officials are...
A one-day conference in Lexington, Ky., will focus on the health and safety of Appalachian coal miners. Researchers, government officials,...
Action on key federal mine safety and health rules are is lagging, including a rule aimed at lowering exposure to...
Black lung diagnoses have doubled in the last decade, and a new investigation blames a combination of factors, including operators...
Black lung disease, long a killer of coal miners, is on the rise again after retreating in the 30 years...