The Trump administration plans to terminate federal workers focused on preventing and responding to work-related illnesses, including "black lung" disease in coal miners, according to an internal ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach.

Since 1970, more than 75,000 miners have died of black lung disease. Researchers working to prevent those deaths have ...

When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration ...

M sued three plaintiffs’ attorneys in federal court on Friday, accusing them of running a racketeering scheme to file dozens ...

Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-VA), member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, participated in a hearing entitled “The ...

Black lung researchers among hundreds laid off from federal health agency ... joined federal officials and lawmakers in 2024 to announce stricter regulations on toxic silica dust in mines.

The attorneys representing U.S. Health and Human Services said a lawsuit is premature because nobody knows yet what will happen to the black lung screening program and the employees who carry it out.

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the reinstatement of nearly 200 fired federal workers who screen coal miners for black lung, a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal dust.A ...

The Trump administration plans to terminate federal workers focused on preventing and responding to work-related illnesses, including "black lung" disease in coal miners, according to an internal ...

The Trump administration plans to terminate federal workers focused on preventing and responding to work-related illnesses, including "black lung" disease in coal miners, according to an internal ...