President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about arm-wrestling them and announced he was signing executive orders to boost ...

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

The budget request has the support of the White House but still must ... "but I think the percentage of miners that are going to contract black lung will probably be higher, and the percentage ...

Black lung is a deadly and incurable ... seriously and will continue to raise well-being of coal miners across the country.” The White House and NIOSH did not immediately respond to requests ...

“For miners, when they get black lung benefits, they also get a black lung medical ... President Joe Biden arrived at the White House promising to “build back” America, and the legislation he's ...

In a rare occasion of good news for the nation’s coal miners, a decision this week in ... are critically important in addressing the black lung epidemic stalking Appalachia’s coal miners ...

Now, two unions representing miners have sued the White House over its recent threat ... more toxic than coal dust and a major cause of black lung disease among coal miners — in half.

A second White House official ... Rosenberger’s son declined to comment for this article. Several coal miners with black lung also declined to comment, saying they worried the administration ...

In early April, President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room ... from an aggressive form of black lung disease.

But after Trump won election back to the White House, buoyed by his strong ... sticking to outdated standards even as the number of miners developing black lung soared. “Every single day the ...