A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.

Former NIOSH employees are continuing to speak out against federal cuts that will negatively impact coal miner safety in West ...

NIOSH estimates that 20% of coal miners in Central Appalachia now suffer from some form of black lung disease, the highest rate that has been detected in 25 years, as workers in the aging mines ...

Black lung, a debilitating and often fatal condition caused by inhalation of coal and silica dust during mining, affects ...

Coal miners continue to fuel everything from the cutting-edge ... Coal has played a central role in Appalachia’s history. It ...

All can be caused by chronic exposure to respirable coal mine dust, which, in the mines of Central Appalachia, is increasingly cut with particles of crystalline silica. As centuries of mining have ...

The Trump administration and DOGE laid off 25 federal workers who were responsible for the one program America's coal miners ...

NIOSH estimates that 20% of coal miners in Central Appalachia now suffer from some form of black lung disease, the highest rate that has been detected in 25 years, as workers in the aging mines blast ...