In Central Appalachia, an estimated one in five tenured coal miners has black lung disease. The condition reduces life expectancy by an average of 12 years and makes it a “struggle to get ...

Used to be, black lung didn't force a man out of the mines until he was in his late fifties or early sixties. Kevin is just 34. Kevin has been a coal miner almost half his life. At age 18 ...

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported Lung disease is a well-known deadly consequence of working in the coal industry. But a new NPR study finds miners are ...

Sen. Joe Manchin, I-W.Va., has been a champion for coal miners, especially those of us with black lung. He secured a permanent extension of funding for the black lung disability trust fund that ...

The coal mines of the Tennessee Coal ... long-term exposure to poor air caused chronic lung diseases such as black lung. For convict laborers, conditions were even worse. Poor food rations ...

or the long term health threats like black lung. As Curtis Burton, who spent the last 17 years working in or for coal mines in Pennsylvania, told Business Insider, coal mining is a hard job ...

Schuylkill County lost a devoted historian, coal mining re-enactor and veterans advocate with the recent passing of John ...

Injustice is woven into Michael Duff's personal history. The Saint Louis University School of Law professor is the grandson of a Kentucky coal miner who died of black lung disease, his family neither ...

Nathan Blake won 29 caps for Wales and played for numerous top flight football clubs Black miners played an integral role in the story of the Welsh coal industry, but it's a story that has rarely ...

SunCoke Energy, Inc. (NYSE: SXC) today reported third quarter 2024 results, reflecting strong operational performance from our cokemaking and logistic ...