As cases mount, industry pushback is delaying federal rules that would reduce miners’ exposure to deadly silica dust.

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 ...

Over the past year, President Trump has championed coal mines. He signed an executive order to, quote, "reinvigorate America's beautiful, clean coal industry." The order aims to increase production, ...