The Department of Government Efficiency, created by President Donald Trump and run by Elon Musk, has been targeting federal ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is among the federal agencies selected for spending ...

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

The Associated Press is reporting thousands of employees within the U.S. Health and Human Services Department received layoff ...

Without programs provided by NIOSH, people in the mining industry and researchers are scrambling to find what else can be ...

whose workers face issues like black lung disease, to question whether there’s now a “war” on coal miners. “The announced significant downsizing of offices in Morgantown, W.Va., ...

The coal workers' health program is probably best known for a giant mobile health clinic that makes an annual tour through mining communities. There, miners get tested for black lung free and ...

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.

Libby Lindsay spent 21 years working underground as a miner for Bethlehem Steel in West ... union members and advocates for those with black lung disease to lobby for stricter silica dust exposure ...

“Coal mining is a tough business ... The organization has worked with union members and advocates for those with black lung disease to lobby for stricter silica dust exposure limits.

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