Black lung disability payments to miners have been shrinking. In 2024, the monthly payment for an individual was around $772 a month, or up to around $1,500 a month for households with three or ...

In central Appalachia, he helped reveal an epidemic of progressive massive fibrosis — an advanced stage of black lung disease. An announcement came last week that Robert F. Kennedy Jr would be ...

A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR Mine safety is under attack.

Within days of signing orders to ratchet up U.S. coal mining, the Trump administration had to temporarily halt a rule aimed at protecting miners from silica dust and black lung disease because of ...