Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many mining activities involve exposure to silica dust. The newly finalized limits now align with the ...

Roosevelt Neal and Gary Hairston (right), members of the Fayette County Black Lung Association, sit in an office building of the U.S. Senate last May. They were visiting Washington, D.C. to speak with ...

New regulations have been proposed to cut the current limit for silica dust exposure in an effort to slow the rise of black lung among coal miners. While many miners hailed the new proposal, which has ...

As black lung continues to kill coal miners, House Republicans moved to block enforcement of a life-saving safety rule. Black lung is on the rise among underground coal miners. (Photo by Justin ...

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 ...

The Biden administration agreed Tuesday to limit workers' exposure to toxic silica dust, a common byproduct in U.S. mining operations. The federal rule will reduce the allowable level of silica dust ...

For America's Appalachian coal mining communities, there's a shot at a safer future on the horizon. "Passing this proposal is the difference between life and death," Erin Bates, Communication Director ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The ...

Retired coal miner James Bounds, who has pneumoconiosis, more commonly known as “black lung," poses for a photo at his home in Oak Hill, W.Va., Thursday, July, 13, 2023. Bounds said nothing can be ...