A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

Federal protections for coal miners with black lung disease are at risk as significant layoffs erode vital programs. Mass ...

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A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

Josh Cochran, a coal miner diagnosed with black lung disease at age 43, highlights the challenges faced by miners as government cuts stall critical health programs. While federal programs once ...

Va., says he is worried that President Donald Trump may try to weaken recently enacted silica standards that are designed to protect American coal miners. Kaine, who met last week with the Daily ...

About the same time number 47 was promising to raise demand for coal and to send lots more miners back to work underground, HHS head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was ...

Black lung has been on the rise over the last two decades, and has increasingly been reported by young workers in their 30s and 40s despite declining coal production. NIOSH estimates that 20% of coal ...