The Trump administration has cut programs that protected workers from lung disease, aided those afflicted, and kept miners ...

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The Trump administration has paused implementation of a rule limiting miners’ exposure to airborne silica dust days after a federal court agreed to put it on hold to hear an industry challenge. The ...

When miners protested Trump’s move to shutter safety offices and a health program for black lung disease, his administration ...

Black lung is a deadly and incurable ... seriously and will continue to raise well-being of coal miners across the country.” The White House and NIOSH did not immediately respond to requests ...

Authors and coal miner’s daughters Marsha Sutherland Self and Rebecca Riner White, share with us the story behind their book ...

A second White House official ... Rosenberger’s son declined to comment for this article. Several coal miners with black lung also declined to comment, saying they worried the administration ...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room ... from an aggressive form of black lung disease.