A Biden administration rule lowered the amount of toxic dust workers in mines and quarries can be exposed to, but a lawsuit ...
Pneumoconiosis, a chronic lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of certain dust types, is also referred to as lung ...
In Emery County, fourth-generation coal miner Jared Simms says, “This whole area was raised on coal mining." But at 49, he ...
A growing pool of studies finds concerning levels of plastic and forever chemicals in our common food items and their ...
At the Salem Stone Quarry in Dublin, Virginia, miners crush ... into black lung disease — an incurable scourge that’s been on the rise in Central Appalachia. For coal mines, where they ...
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 ...
Mutant RAS, they ... Nov. 6, 2024 — Exhaled breath contains chemical clues to what's going on inside the body, including diseases like lung cancer. And devising ways to sense these compounds ...
OBILIC, Kosovo/BELGRADE - For 30 years, Shemsi Gara operated a giant digger in a Kosovo coal mine, churning up toxic dust that covered his face and got into his airways. Home life wasn't much better: ...