President Donald Trump's administration has proposed several changes that would affect the struggling U.S. coal industry.Trump issued executive orders this mont ...

Mine worker unions aren’t facing any imminent harm from a regulation on silica dust, the federal government said in its bid ...

The democratic process of scientific study, public debate and comment helps regulators arrive at a rule that balances the ...

Attorney James McHugh has been tapped to serve as deputy assistant secretary at the US Labor Department’s Mine Safety and ...

A series of federal cutbacks has brought one of the United States’ longest-standing coal miner health programmes to an abrupt ...

A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

A federal program that screens coal miners for black lung disease has been shuttered because of layoffs and budget cuts.