Implementation of a previously approved federal rule meant to help prevent black lung in the nation’s coal miners has been ...

In Poland, 80,000 people still work in coalmines – the last in the European Union that is fully committed to the energy transition. Once active mines are being converted to other uses, and yet coal is ...

A display case at NIOSH shows a normal lung and a diseased black lung, caused by inhaling coal dust and other harmful particles while coal mining. Howard Berkes NPR Mine safety is under attack. In the ...

This report compares the monitoring technologies and sampling protocols currently used or required by the United States, and in similarly industrialized countries for the control of respirable coal ...

It is a somber Easter Sunday for dozens of families in southern West Virginia as today marks the 16th anniversary of one of ...

Miners, their supporters and medical experts rallied in Washington, calling on the Trump administration to enforce black lung protections. Outside of the Department of Labor on Tuesday morning, ...

Health officials say black lung disease can be deadly and can continue to worsen even after a miner leaves the mines.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration said Wednesday it is cutting the amount of coal dust allowed in coal mines in an effort to help reduce black lung disease. "Today we advance a very basic ...

The Malawi government has suspended the mining license of a coal company for dumping mining waste into two rivers that ...

Nagpur: Neri village in Kamptee taluka is in the throes of a critical pollution crisis posing a serious threat to people's ...