In Central Appalachia, an estimated one in five tenured coal miners has black lung disease. The condition reduces life expectancy by an average of 12 years and makes it a “struggle to get ...

A Biden administration rule lowered the amount of toxic dust workers in mines and quarries can be exposed to, but a lawsuit and new Congress could upend it.

Was this done without the consent of miners or their bereaved families? Black lung disease, formally known as pneumoconiosis, is a horrible condition caused by inhaling coal dust. "It was really ...

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...

When the Appalachian Citizens Law Center (ACLC) went looking for someone to help them publicize the risk of Covid-19 for coal miners with black lung disease, they wanted a person miners could trust.

which may play a role in the pathogenesis of lung diseases among coal miners[5]. This highlights the importance of understanding the sources and characteristics of coal dust to better assess ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal ... long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions were even worse. Poor food rations ...

Ex-miner Wu Wenhui has ... thousands of miners die from lung disease. Wenhui and Xiaosi have lost friends to one particularly nasty form of silicosis - known as black lung.

In Emery County, fourth-generation coal miner Jared Simms says, “This whole area was raised on coal mining." But at 49, he ...

a chronic lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of certain dust types, is also referred to as lung scarring or fibrosis. It is prevalent in mining regions where coal, asbestos, cobalt ...