BELMONT COUNTY, Ohio — Local union miners are advocating for an increase in black lung benefits, citing the need for updated support that has remained unchanged for several years. In Belmont ...

Lawyers for the federal government have filed a court-ordered certification that jobs focused on black lung screening at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health have been ...

Jobs related to black lung screening have been restored at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, but questions remain about whether the federally required screening programs ...

Federal enforcement staff and resources for coal mine safety have been sharply reduced, and implementation of stricter silica dust rules—meant to curb black lung disease—has been delayed ...

3M lawsuit says attorneys falsified black lung claims to pressure settlement. By Diana Novak Jones. June 13, 2025 9:52 PM UTC Updated June 13, 2025 The 3M logo is seen at its ...

From when it began tracking black lung in 1970 to 2016, the Centers for Disease Control reported that the condition was the underlying or contributing cause of death for more than 75,000 miners.

The NIOSH Coal Worker’s Health Surveillance Program offered periodic black lung screenings at no cost to coal miners in the U.S. Submitted Photo; Featured Editor's Pick.

Local union miners are advocating for an increase in black lung benefits, citing the need for updated support that has remained unchanged for several years. In Belmont County alone, there are 98 ...

Watch out Wakandans, there's a new Black Panther in town--but he's clearly not from your tribe. But don't worry fans, there's bit more to this story than you might realize. As you well know by now ...

A team of astronomers led by Michael Janssen (Radboud University, The Netherlands) has trained a neural network with millions of synthetic black hole data sets. Based on the network and data from ...

In doing so, it has also identified a way to reverse that damage and restore lung function. We already know that exposure to air pollution is bad for us , and it’s particularly damaging for our ...