This week, some politicians and coal companies call themselves friends of coal, but one journalist says they don’t seem to be ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...