Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Many mining activities involve exposure to silica dust. The newly finalized limits now align with the ...

For America's Appalachian coal mining communities, there's a shot at a safer future on the horizon. "Passing this proposal is the difference between life and death," Erin Bates, Communication Director ...

New regulations have been proposed to cut the current limit for silica dust exposure in an effort to slow the rise of black lung among coal miners. While many miners hailed the new proposal, which has ...

Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly known as black lung ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The ...

Nation’s First Critical Minerals Mine Nears Approval in Biodiversity Hotspot One Year After Green Bank’s Demise, Court Mulls Future of Grant-Based Climate Policy Summer in March? Unusual Heat Wave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retired coal miner Emory “Curly” Carter, 70, with his wife, Ida Mae Carter, 70, at their home on April 15, 2025, in Madison, W.V.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A half-century ago, the nation's top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The ...

Retired coal miner James Bounds, who has pneumoconiosis, more commonly known as “black lung," poses for a photo at his home in Oak Hill, W.Va., Thursday, July, 13, 2023. Bounds said nothing can be ...