How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country Miners who have come for an initial exam — the first step in the process to prove they have black lung and are owed benefits — get an X-ray and a breathing test and then climb on a treadmill
Black Lung Returns To Coal Country - NPR In central Appalachia, the black lung rate for working coal miners with at least 25 years experience underground is the highest it's been in a quarter century
Black Lung Disease Back and Worse Than Before, Inside . . . In the 1960s, miners organized a movement to end the chronic condition They convinced Congress to pass new laws that were supposed to make black lung a thing of the past Today, conditions underground have changed, and the disease has come roaring back
Why Black Lung Is Rising in Coal Country - The Journal. One in five coal miners in Central Appalachia now have the disease WSJ’s Kris Maher and former miner James Howerton on how black lung is gripping coal country and upending miners’ lives
Black lung surges back in coal country – Center for Public . . . Throughout the coalfields of Appalachia, in small community clinics and in government labs, it has become clear: Black lung is back The disease’s resurgence represents a failure to deliver on a 40-year-old pledge to miners in which few are blameless, an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and NPR has found