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Safety advocates are bemoaning the delay of new safety standards to protect coal miners from deadly dust exposure.

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now ...

also known as coal worker's pneumoconiosis. "There is concern for significant delays in implementation and possibly never following through with the new rule at all," said Dr. Crum. Black lung ...

Silicosis and exposure to toxic iron dust resemble coal worker’s pneumoconiosis,” Wang explained. The risks of planetary dust are not hypothetical. Apollo astronauts encountered similar ...

The CWHSP offers coal workers free chest radiographs, spirometry, and blood pressure screenings to facilitate the early detection and diagnosis of black lung disease. 9 This program has allowed the ...