Yesterday National Public Radio ran a piece by Howard Berkes following up on his important reporting from earlier this year about the alarming resurgence of severe…
A couple days ago, Smithsonian.com published a detailed article about the recent resurgence of black lung. The well-done article, titled “Why Black Lung Disease Is Deadlier…
Two medical journal recently published articles that both provide reviews of the scientific literature on Coal Mine Dust Lung Disease (CMDLD): the umbrella term for lung…
Earlier today the radio program Here and Now—which runs on National Public Radio—ran a program called “The Resurgence of Black Lung in Appalachia.” The eleven-minute piece…
Yesterday the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued a precedential decision holding that a denial of a Pennsylvania workers’ compensation claim for black…
Breaking news: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rejected the coal industry’s challenge to the 2014 dust rule by the U.S. Department of…
The resurgence of black lung has made the cover of Environmental Health Perspectives, a widely-read journal published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.…
After six decades without a reported case of black lung, Australia is experiencing a resurgence of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis. As reported by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation…
On Friday, November 13, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued a published decision in Blue Mountain Energy v. Director, OWCP [Gunderson…