The increased drilling generates deadly silica dust and has caused severe forms of pneumoconiosis, better known as black lung disease, even among younger miners, some in their 30s and 40s.

The Trump administration’s mass federal firings include the scientific investigators who make dangerous workplaces safe for ...

The CDC unit that monitored all coal workers' health, including black lung disease, is gone. Their physicians wonder, "Now ...

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of ...

Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly known as “black lung ...