Bulldozer operations at a coal facility at the Port of Baltimore are directly connected to increased air pollution in the ...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The NIOSH Mobile Black Lung Screening program, stalled earlier this year by DOGE cuts, is back on the ...

Another miner has been added as a plaintiff in a class action suit pending against the federal Department of Health and Human ...

A second plaintiff has joined a federal lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s cuts to a program that screens coal miners for black lung.

Rare earth elements are a family of 17 metallic elements with unusual properties that make them useful for specific ...

The following story is part two of a two-part series examining the devastating impact of black lung disease on the lives of southern West Virginia coal miners and the complications they face when ...

Like many other retired and working miners, his harsh morning routine comes from 36 years of coal mining and the black lung disease it has given him.

Deaths from black lung — a chronic condition caused by inhaling coal dust — had been in decline since the introduction of federal regulations over a half-century ago.

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 ...

That program, which relocates coal miners diagnosed with black lung to safer jobs at the same pay – along with a handful of others intended to protect the nation’s coal miners from the ...

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 ...

Coal miners have long faced risk of black lung disease. Now they’re getting new protections The Labor Department has issued a new rule intended to protect coal miners from poisonous silica dust ...