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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

“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 ...

Libby Lindsay spent 21 years working underground as a miner ... nonprofit Appalachian Voices. The organization has worked with union members and advocates for those with black lung disease to ...