The Trump administration has announced that it will use emergency authorities to rapidly increase the pace of approving ...

Josh Cochran worked deep in the coal mines of West Virginia since he was 22 years old, pulling a six-figure salary that ...

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

By Nadia Ramlagan Public News Service Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to cut a cut a ...

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 ...

The U.S. government is ending the leases of four Mine Safety and Health Administration offices in Pennsylvania and has plans to cut 200 jobs at the Pittsburgh Mining Research Division of OSHA (“Pa.

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

The Morton Salt mine in New Iberia has been removed from a "safety watch" after improving its compliance with federal rules, ...

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

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration is among the federal agencies selected for spending cuts by the Department of Government Efficiency. Nearly three dozen ...

U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) has strongly criticized recent Trump administration policies that could compromise the ...