Coal miners, their family members, and union representatives rallied outside of the US Department of Labor’s headquarters in ...

After mining industry trade groups sued to overturn the rule, federal judges twice paused its enforcement before the ...

There has been a resurgence of black lung disease, also known as Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), in recent years among miners in the central Appalachian coalfields. Long considered an affliction ...

In a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor, miners and their advocates stressed the need to limit silica exposure and ...

A new federal rule aimed at reducing coal miners’ exposure to silica dust, a leading cause of black lung disease, has been put on delay until August. (Getty Images) As President Donald Trump signed ...

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 dust ...

MATEWAN, WV — Coal. It's been powering homes for hundreds of years. While many want to reduce the use of fossil fuels, coal use is actually up around 22% nationwide, the first increase in seven years.

Coal miners feel betrayed by President Donald Trump for failing to enforce health regulations to prevent black lung disease. Dozens of miners and their families will protest Tuesday outside the Labor ...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive ...

Roosevelt Neal and Gary Hairston (right), members of the Fayette County Black Lung Association, sit in an office building of the U.S. Senate last May. They were visiting Washington, D.C. to speak with ...

Activism / After the government betrayed them by refusing to enforce a crucial workplace health rule, a group of coal miners traveled to DC to put Trump on notice. Kim Kelly Last Tuesday, a small ...

Don Blankenship says companies justified in fighting black lung cases. April 8, 2014 — -- The former boss of one of the nation’s largest coal companies, who was known for his iron-fisted control ...