President Donald Trump gathered dozens of hard-hat-clad coal miners around him in the White House East Room. He joked about ...

Danny Johnson, a retired coal miner with complicated black lung, holds a protective mask that used to be white, but turned black and crusted with dust during one working shift in a mine.

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 ...

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 ...

At a White House ceremony flanked by coal workers ... core mission to protect the health and safety of America’s miners." Black lung has been on the rise over the last two decades, and has ...

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 ...