This week, some politicians and coal companies call themselves friends of coal, but one journalist says they don’t seem to be ...

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

Tom Bethell, dead at 86, dedicated his extraordinary journalistic and analytic skills to demand justice for coal miners and ...

Former NIOSH employees are continuing to speak out against federal cuts that will negatively impact coal miner safety in West ...

At the White House, President Trump recently signed four executive orders to fight back on the wrongheaded policies of the ...

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

All can be caused by chronic exposure to respirable coal mine dust, which, in the mines of Central Appalachia, is increasingly cut with particles of crystalline silica. As centuries of mining have ...

worked on developing products and practices to protect coal miners and ran a surveillance program to detect cases of black lung disease, which is on the rise in central Appalachia. "I am concerned ...

NIOSH estimates that 20% of coal miners in Central Appalachia now suffer from some form of black lung disease, the highest rate that has been detected in 25 years, as workers in the aging mines ...

Clean coal is a lie. Just ask the victims across Appalachia. Along with the miners who stood with President Trump at the White House and those who work in our states, we celebrate this new chapter ...