Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution ...

The following story is part one of a two-part series examining the devastating impact of black lung disease on the lives of ...

Researchers working to prevent deaths from the disease, which has killed over 75,000 miners, received layoff notices.

I worked underground in the mines for 20 years, starting in 1977. Then I spent almost two more decades fighting for the ...

Harry Wiley, a coal miner from Kanawha County, is the lead plaintiff and appeared before Berger on Wednesday. He has early-stage black lung. In 2024, Wiley learned that he might be developing coal ...

A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...

The New York Times reports that coal miners are contracting black lung at younger ages and at rates not seen since the 1970s. Pulmonologist and MSNBC Medical Contributor Dr. Vin Gupta explains why its ...

Coal miners have a higher-than-average risk of dying from black lung by virtue of their occupation. One in 10 underground coal miners who worked in mines for at least 25 years had black lung ...

Shown here, on April 23, 2025, is a rally in support of some 185 researchers and other employees of the National Institute ...

About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died.

Black lung is a deadly and incurable disease caused by inhaling toxic coal dust. NIOSH epidemiologists recently found that 1 in 5 longtime coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung, the ...