(BALTIMORE) — The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine revealed on Wednesday that it has quietly but permanently shut down its controversial black lung unit and is no longer employing the ...

In a rare occasion of good news for the nation’s coal miners, a decision this week in a lawsuit brought by one of their own will reverse at least some of the damage done when the Trump administration ...

In an effort to support coal miners disabled by black lung disease, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a series of outreach events in Pennsylvania. According to a recent release, these ...

Senator Shelley Moore Capito has written a formal letter asking for a reversal of cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which runs a coal mine lung disease screening ...

The federal Black Lung Program was enacted in 1969, just prior to the death of my grandfather, a Kentucky coal miner, from the disease. Black lung, also known as “Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis,” is an ...

U.S. District Judge Irene Berger has granted a preliminary injunction that would reverse federally ordered job cuts endangering legally required black lung screening. Irene Berger Berger’s order, ...

OAK HILL, West Virginia (Reuters) -Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that allowed him to buy a home with his wife ...

A certification was entered in federal court this week proving that at least 50 employees at the National Institute of Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division have had their ...

Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that allowed him to buy a home with his wife Stephanie and hunt and fish in his spare ...