A new federal rule aimed at reducing coal miners’ exposure to silica dust, a leading cause of black lung disease, has been put on delay until August. (Getty Images) As President Donald Trump signed ...
Layoffs halt black lung protection programs for miners NIOSH and MSHA programs suspended amid Trump administration cuts Miners face increased risk as safety regulations enforcement weakens OAK HILL, ...
A new federal rule aimed at reducing coal miners’ exposure to silica dust, a leading cause of black lung disease, has been put on delay until August. (Getty Images) As President Donald Trump signed ...
Sam Petsonk grew up around southern West Virginia's mining communities, visiting patients with his father, one of the country's first doctors to specialize in Black Lung Disease. "When I was a child, ...
President Trump's sweeping cuts at federal health agencies include the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program. Over the past half century, that program dramatically reduced black lung disease, ...
There has been a resurgence of black lung disease, also known as Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), in recent years among miners in the central Appalachian coalfields. Long considered an affliction ...
Arvin Hanshaw, of Summersville, W.Va., wears a hat with a miner silhouetted by the state of West Virginia, as he joins a group going to Washington, D.C., to protest the government's delay of the ...
President Trump has been a cheerleader for coal miners. But these miners say his administration is failing to enforce limits on a lethal workplace hazard. Gary Hairston, 71, is a retired coal miner ...
OAK HILL, West Virginia, April 21 (Reuters) - Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that allowed him to buy a home with his ...
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