Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of...
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A coal dust examiner who worked for a Kentucky mining company has been sentenced to six months in prison for...
U.S. coal baron Robert Murray, whose company Murray Energy filed for bankruptcy last year, has applied for federal benefits to...
The head of the national coal miners’ union on Thursday urged the Trump administration to impose regulation on silica dust...
More than 10 percent of America’s coal miners with 25 or more years of experience have black lung disease, the...
Two former coal miners in Kentucky who claimed defective dust masks led to their debilitating black-lung disease were awarded $67.5...
A new research letter published in a medical journal details hundreds of cases of black lung disease in the Central...
Kentucky lawmakers completed quick work Thursday evening on a proposal championed by the Senate’s top leader to reduce the beleaguered...
New data show many more coal miners across Appalachia suffering from the most serious form of black lung disease than...
A spike in serious black-lung cases in eastern Kentucky indicates that a disease lawmakers hoped to eradicate decades ago continues...