President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

About 100 people who study ways to prevent injuries, illnesses and death in coal mines are set to lose their jobs in June.

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...

The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.

The Trump administration temporarily rehired as many as 40 employees who screen coal miners for the deadly and incurable ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal ...

When the federal government tried to fire a team protecting coal miners from Wyoming to West Virginia from black lung disease ...

Nothing will deter us from protecting Oak Flat from destruction,” said Wendsler Nosie, head of Apache Stronghold.

Two West Virginia coal miners with black lung disease testified before a federal judge on Wednesday during a hearing on the Trump administration’s decision to effectively shutter a program that ...

That same day, the Trump administration paused implementation of a rule that would help protect coal miners from an aggressive form of black lung disease. Enforcement of the new protections is ...