In Central Appalachia, an estimated one in five tenured coal miners has black lung disease. The condition reduces life expectancy by an average of 12 years and makes it a “struggle to get ...

Miners and their advocates worry that DOGE's cuts to the Mine Safety and Health Administration will put them at risk.

Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...

Carbon County has a long history in coal mining. For hundreds of years, the region, which is known as the Coal Region, has been a large source of anthracite coal to heat homes, power operations and ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal ... long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions were even worse. Poor food rations ...

“Thousands of coal miners disabled by black lung disease and their dependents rely on federal black lung benefits,” Commissioner Sherene Hess said, “including, in fiscal year 2024, 1,471 ...

Rates of black lung disease have increased over recent decades — and in Kentucky and other parts of central Appalachia, one in five coal miners suffer from it, according to recent research.