Hundreds of employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health were laid off this week, including ...

Without programs provided by NIOSH, people in the mining industry and researchers are scrambling to find what else can be done to serve coal miners in our region.

Government staffing cuts have gutted a small U.S. health agency that aims to protect workers — drawing rebukes from ...

In central Appalachia, he helped reveal an epidemic of progressive massive fibrosis — an advanced stage of black lung disease ... "I love my coal miners. They're the best guys in the world ...

“Here in central Appalachia, everybody knows somebody with black lung disease,” she said. It appears NIOSH programs for coal miners are being eliminated, raising questions about who will ...

The federal government wants the number of offices that oversee U.S. mine safety laws to align more with a shrinking coal industry ... that protect miners from deadly black lung disease, inspect ...

This includes seven in Kentucky, which would leave the fifth-leading coal producing state with ... ventilation systems that protect miners from deadly black lung disease, inspect impoundment ...