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 ...

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

DOGE terminated leases for more mine safety offices in Kentucky than any other state, a move advocates say comes at the expense of miners' health.

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 ...

Coal mines were dangerous for all workers ... For those who survived those hazards, long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions ...

black lung organizer for the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, which opposes the bill. Two Republicans on the committee who ...

As funding cuts continue to have an impact across the country, Anita Wolfe, who’s retired from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Morgantown location, sat down ...

Black lung disease, or coal workers' pneumoconiosis, causes inflammation and scarring of the lungs. Rates of black lung disease have increased over recent decades — and in Kentucky and other ...