The increased drilling generates deadly silica dust and has caused severe forms of pneumoconiosis, better known as black lung disease, even among younger miners, some in their 30s and 40s.

Staff reportThe Chronicle-News The University of New Mexico is increasing healthcare access for miners battling black lung disease by partnering with rural clinics like Miners’… Login to continue read ...

At the request of the Appalachian Citizens Law Center in Whitesburg, Ky., the Indiana County Commissioners on Wednesday approved a resolution calling on the area’s federal lawmakers to support ...

Last month, the Trump administration nominated mining industry association executive Wayne Palmer to head MSHA.

Carbon County has a long history in coal mining. For hundreds of years, the region, which is known as the Coal Region, has been a large source of anthracite coal to heat homes, power operations and ...

Rates of black lung disease have increased over recent decades — and in Kentucky and other parts of central Appalachia, one in five coal miners suffer from it, according to recent research.

The HEART5 Mobile Health Unit — a B-double truck packed with equipment to test mine dust lung diseases like silicosis, black ...

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 ...

The incidence rates of active pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and silicosis among gold miners remain high, but recent years have seen a slow decline in the rates of both diseases, according to a recent ...