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

NOGUCHI: Yesterday, Petsonk filed suit against Health and Human Services ... NOGUCHI: Laney says with no staff, the Coal Worker (ph) Health Surveillance Program and its database of X-rays, medical ...

“Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance ... over the suspension of the screening program. The suit accuses the Trump administration of violating the ...

As a result, the NIOSH Respiratory Health Division and the Coal Workers Health Surveillance ... issued by U.S. District Judge Irene Berger in the suit against the Department of Health and Human ...

Some workers who benefit from those programs have ... HHS has until Thursday to respond to the suit. Coal miners have a higher-than-average risk of dying from black lung by virtue of their occupation.

The black lung screening initiative, formally known as the Coal Workers’ Health Surveillance ... of the black lung screening program. The suit accuses the Trump administration of violating ...

Over 100 federal employees who screen coal miners for black lung disease and research other respiratory disease who had been ...

Senator Shelley Moore Capito has written a formal letter asking for a reversal of cuts to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, which runs a coal mine lung disease screening ...

The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court. U.S. President Donald Trump ...

Trump has long espoused a love of coal. “I call it beautiful, clean coal—I tell my people to never use the word ‘coal’ unless you put ‘beautiful, clean’ before it,” the president ...

After that date, the union said, the workers would still ... of the screening program. The suit accuses the Trump administration of violating the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, and ...