Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new safety standards to protect coal miners from deadly dust exposure.

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

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The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...

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

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of ...

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Black lung, a debilitating and often fatal condition caused by inhalation of coal and silica dust during mining, affects roughly 1 in 5 miners who have worked in the Central Appalachian mines for ...