EDITOR’S NOTE: The following story is part two of a two-part series examining the devastating impact of black lung disease on the lives of southern West Virginia coal miners and the complications they ...

A new federal rule aimed at reducing coal miners’ exposure to silica dust, a leading cause of black lung disease, has been put on delay until August. (Getty Images) As President Donald Trump signed ...

Don Blankenship says companies justified in fighting black lung cases. April 8, 2014 — -- The former boss of one of the nation’s largest coal companies, who was known for his iron-fisted control ...

The federal Black Lung Program was enacted in 1969, just prior to the death of my grandfather, a Kentucky coal miner, from the disease. Black lung, also known as “Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis,” is an ...

President Trump's sweeping cuts at federal health agencies include the Coal Workers' Health Surveillance Program. Over the past half century, that program dramatically reduced black lung disease, ...

This story was originally published by Cardinal News. As an advocate for miners with black lung disease and their families, I was so disappointed to see a tax break for metallurgical coal in the Big ...

Sam Petsonk grew up around southern West Virginia's mining communities, visiting patients with his father, one of the country's first doctors to specialize in Black Lung Disease. "When I was a child, ...

There has been a resurgence of black lung disease, also known as Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP), in recent years among miners in the central Appalachian coalfields. Long considered an affliction ...

Once nearly eradicated, the “old man’s disease” is back and suffocating younger miners. Federal cuts risk putting a solution further out of reach. Denver Brock, in the foreground, with his son Aundra.

MADISON, W.Va. — Emory “Curly” Carter sometimes feels like he can’t breathe. Household chores, such as cleaning and gardening, leave him gasping for air, making him feel like he has a “real bad” case ...

PENNINGTON GAP, Tenn. (WJHL) — The St. Charles Health Council Inc. in Lee County has received more than $1 million in grant funding from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to ...