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 ...

A Biden administration rule lowered the amount of toxic dust workers in mines and quarries can be exposed to, but a lawsuit ...

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 ...

compensation deal for tens of thousands of South African miners who contracted deadly lung diseases while working underground. The miners contracted silicosis, an incurable lung disease caused by ...

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 ...

Luzerne County honors its past with Anthracite Heritage Month, a time to reflect on the profound impact of anthracite coal mining on the region’s history, culture and people. For decades, coal was the ...

The clinic staff expects to see patients with occupational and environmental exposures like coal mine dust, silica, beryllium, and asbestos. These providers decided to start this clinic because there ...

Sungrow opened the world's biggest floating solar farm in Anhui province in 2017 Each year thousands of miners die from lung disease ... and flooded following a coal mine disaster Watching ...

Pneumoconiosis, a chronic lung disease caused by prolonged inhalation of certain dust types, is also referred to as lung ...