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Mine safety advocates urge Senate committee to do more to help miners with black lung disease
West Virginia Watch via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe U.S. Senate committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions heard from mine safety advocates...
Coal miners have long faced risk of black lung disease. Now they're getting new protections
Associated Press Finance via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoCoal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the...
Federal officials need to act on Appalachia’s forgotten epidemic | Opinion
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 12 months agoIn the nation’s memory of Appalachian coal mining, black lung disease may seem like a distant part...
New federal rule aims to limit coal miners’ exposure to silica dust, long linked to black lung...
Pennsylvania Capital-Star via Yahoo News· 2 months agoSilica dust exposure has long been linked with black lung cases in miners, and for decades leading...
This proposal could further protect miners from black lung disease, if passed
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoRetired coal miner James Bounds, who has pneumoconiosis, more commonly known as “black lung,” poses...
Free black lung screenings offered at Pipestem State Park
WVNS Bluefield via Yahoo News· 17 hours agoPIPESTEM, WV (WVNS) — More than 10,000 people were employed as miners in the state of West Virginia...
Black lung cases surge, miners seek relief through rule proposal
Newsy via AOL· 10 months agoNew Parkway underground mine in Central City, Ky. For America's Appalachian coal mining communities,...
Kentucky coal company fined $200,000 in case of cheating on tests to protect miners
Lexington Herald-Leader via Yahoo News· 12 months agoAn Eastern Kentucky coal company that pleaded guilty in connection with cheating on tests designed...
Not your grandfather's black lung: Federal rule seeks to save coal miners from silica dust
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWorkers may get respite from breathing the toxic dust that remains omnipresent in U.S. mining...
Pneumoconiosis
Verywell Health via Yahoo News· 5 months agoThe Risk of Breathing in Dust on the Job Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Pneumoconiosis is a lung disease caused by inhaling dust particles in the...