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Brendan Demich was on a bus to Washington, D.C., last week to attend a rally outside the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
The Trump administration has paused implementation of a rule limiting miners’ exposure to airborne silica dust days after a ...
Even as President Trump vows to reinvigorate America's coal industry, critics say his administration has stripped away key health protections for miners.
HHS has reversed the firings of more than 100 employees with the federal institute that protects coal miners from black lung, ...
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 ...
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...
The health secretary said he brought back 328 employees at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, ...
United Mine Workers president and West Virginian Cecil Roberts says he has spoken to Health and Human Services Secretary ...
A judge has ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs in a unit of a small U.S. health agency. U.S.
an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, were fired. As a result, NIOSH’s Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance Program, which offered miners free screenings from a mobile ...