As reported yesterday by ABC News, Senator Casey of Pennsylvania urged Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to release the results of its internal review regarding…
Yesterday, a news program from Knoxville, Tennessee’s WATE featured a miner named Leo Strunk whose claim for black lung benefits has been denied. The compelling story…
On March 21, 2015 at 10:00 a.m., Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center (the publisher of this blog) is hosting an event called “Issues in Black Lung Benefits…
Al Jazeera has posted an interesting 25-minute video (available here) about Chinese black lung activist Wang Keqin, an investigative journalist who formed an organization called “Love…
Two researchers with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health’s Division of Respiratory Disease Studies have conducted a literature review concerning the lung diseases related…
The federal Mine Safety & Health Administration (MSHA) has posted a notice and agenda for an upcoming workshop about preventing black lung that it (in collaboration…
New research from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has found that the rate of the most severe form of black lung among…
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is expanding its national program of health surveillance for coal miners. In accordance with the Mine Safety and…
In 1998, the Louisville Courier-Journal ran “Dust, Deception and Death,” a five-part investigation into the shocking prevalence of black lung in the mining industry. One story…
Major news: Dr. Wheeler is now presumed not to be believable by the Department of Labor. The Director of the Division of Coal Mine Workers’ Compensation…