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The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.
About two-thirds of the staff that provides free examinations for the deadly disease, which one study says affects 1 in 5 ...
Coal miners in West Virginia no longer have access to free black lung screenings amid budget cuts mandated by President ...
The Trump administration temporarily rehired as many as 40 employees who screen coal miners for the deadly and incurable ...
West Virginia coal miners ask federal judge to protect program that screens for black lung disease and helps uphold federal ...
A memo from the head of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health said the reinstatements were only temporary ...
The president’s voters in West Virginia like his championing of the industry yet worry about possible curbs in mine ...
New coal mine safety requirements from the Mine Safety and Health Administration were supposed to take effect this month ...
Morgantown, West Virginia — In West Virginia's coal country ... is your young ones, before they realize what they've done to their body, they're gonna have black lung, and the numbers is ...
Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner ... also cut programs that keep miners safe, shutting down the country’s only program tracking an epidemic of black-lung disease and silicosis, and ...