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On a blistering August afternoon in Cumberland, Kentucky, David Pratt, Jr. stood in the middle of a two-lane highway, holding a sign that read “COAL…
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As states across the Ohio Valley order the closure of non-essential businesses to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, coal mines will remain open.…
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Just three bankruptcies of American coal companies have added more than $800 million in costs to a federal government program that funds health care for…
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Officials with the Mine Safety and Health Administration met for the first time with miners’ health researchers Wednesday in a new partnership designed to…
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A new report from the nonpartisan budget watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense says that an expired coal tax is effectively a taxpayer subsidy for the…
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The Mine Safety and Health Administration will host a public meeting Thursday as it considers action on regulating respirable silica, one of the major…
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Coal miners and family members of miners who have died from black lung disease gathered Sunday in Whitesburg, Kentucky, to dedicate a new memorial to…
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Democratic members of Congress introduced legislation Tuesday to provide additional funding for coal miners suffering from black lung. The bills came as a…
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Harold Sturgill was disabled by black lung disease when he was 58 years old. Now he advocates for disabled miners.“When it comes to the mining companies,…
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Robert Bailey started mining coal in southern West Virginia's McDowell County in the 1970s. By the time he retired from the Patriot Coal Company 36 years…