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 ...

Following the death of a mine worker in East Tennessee, 6 News is taking a closer look at the dangers of the job.

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 ...

The following story is part one 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly known as black lung ...