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HHS has reversed the firings of more than 100 employees with the federal institute that protects coal miners from black lung, ...
Over 100 federal employees who screen coal miners for black lung disease and research other respiratory disease who had been ...
A new exhibition is exploring loss and changing landscapes following the demise of the mining industry. Going Back Brockens: ...
The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.
A 100-year-old painting by Lawren Harris depicting miners' houses in Glace Bay, N.S., evokes memories of the killing of one ...
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 ...
When strike organizers in the early 1900s decided to protest the conditions in the coal camps, the strikes had a significant impact on the lives of women. Striking miners and their families were ...
Eric Anderson, a 44-year-old coal miner, voted for Donald Trump to keep West Virginia’s mines humming and applauded the president’s executive orders allowing power plants to burn more coal.
In 1984 the miners' strike threw coal-mining areas across the UK into industrial chaos and social upheaval. It contributed to a shift in the political landscape and, according to Billy Bragg ...