Even as President Trump vows to reinvigorate America's coal industry, critics say his administration has stripped away key health protections for miners.

At 4:07 p.m., May 19, 1928, the whistle blew at Mather Mine, alerting people of an emergency. The explosion that caused it, ...

President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

After nearly four decades working in underground coal mines ... causes black lung. The dust, known as crystalline silica, is generated when miners drill through rock to retrieve coal from thin ...

All can be caused by chronic exposure to respirable coal mine dust, which, in the mines of Central ... miners are required to cut through more and more layers of rock to get to the black gold ...

President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order to boost coal mining and ... to more silica dust than ever before as miners are forced to cut through more rock to access deep ...

It came as more rock was mined to reach ever smaller and more remote coal, mine union officials said. That in turn increased silica dust exposure. A NIOSH study in 2018 found that 10% of ...

Mining coal and uranium left ... separate uranium from surrounding rock, a practice that raises concerns about groundwater contamination and radioactive dust exposure. Morgan argued that these ...

It was dirty and dangerous, but coal mining also cultivated pride ... skin torn away, lungs ruined by dust, men killed by falls or gas or explosions – and, on the other, the profound and ...

Three years later, 275 tons of rock was dumped on the site ... Sometimes they started fires for warmth. There was coal dust ignition in some of the mines that were operated under far looser ...