Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution ...

The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has proposed a new rule that would lower coal miners' exposure to silica dust, reducing the threat of black lung disease.

Researchers working to prevent deaths from the disease, which has killed over 75,000 miners, received layoff notices.

Over the last five decades, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. To catch that disease and other health ...

About 800 NIOSH employees placed on leave have set up a “war room” in West Virginia to keep campaigning for min ...

The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily reinstated dozens of fired federal workers who help screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal ...

About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died.

Black lung is a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal dust. NIOSH epidemiologists recently found that 1 in 5 longtime coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung, the ...

throughout coal country. Weeks later, it proposed cutting 90 percent of the staff at the National Institute for Occupational Health. That would have killed its efforts to screen miners for black lung ...

CDC reinstates workers who screen coal miners for black lung disease. The Trump administration temporarily rehired as many as 40 employees who screen coal miners for the deadly and incurable disease.

The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily reinstated dozens of fired federal workers who help screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal ...