The federal Mine Safety and Health Administration has proposed cutting by half the level at which miners may be exposed to silica dust stirred up during drilling for coal and other ores.

a common byproduct in U.S. mining operations. The federal rule will reduce the allowable level of silica dust when workers drill for coal and other ores. The public health impact of the new rule ...

It’s caused by the inhalation of coal mine dust, especially exposure to highly dangerous silica dust. Silica is one of Earth’s most abundant minerals, and it’s about 20 times more toxic ...

Burning coal is not only a vast source of pollution — the mining process has all kinds of nasty side effects, too. One of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly ...

Black lung is an incurable, deadly disease that's on the rise, especially among coal miners in central ... that include cutting silica dust limits in mines. But that's not all it would do.

"Silica dust is especially toxic, much more toxic than coal mine dust," said Glagola. The clinic is seeing the heartbreaking health effects. It specializes in black lung diagnosis and treatment.

Miners entering an elevator shaft at the start of a six-hour shift this month at a state-run coal mine near the town of ... Plumes of dust and smoke from Russian bombardment are exchanged for ...

Coal mining in the Elk Valley began around 1900, and by 1970, levels of those chemicals had quintupled. The pace of contamination quickened after 1970, when aboveground mining in the Elk Valley began.

A former coal miner who developed terminal lung illness has won $3.2 million in a landmark victory at the Dust Diseases Tribunal. Craig Keogh was former coal miner who worked for nearly a decade at ...