A decades-old program operated by NIOSH to detect lung disease in coal miners is one of the federal programs that have been ...

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

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

Gizmodo reached out to the Trump administration and the UMWA for comment.

About the same time number 47 was promising to raise demand for coal and to send lots more miners back to work underground, HHS head Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was ...

At a White House ceremony flanked by coal workers ... The loss of staff at NIOSH has also crippled black lung-afflicted miners' ability to get relocated with pay as part of the Part 90 program.