black lung

Example Sentences

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He still struggles with black lung disease, she said, and joint pain from time spent crawling underground.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2024

As progress on the rule stalled, government researchers documented with growing alarm a resurgence of severe black lung afflicting younger coal miners, and studies implicated poorly controlled silica as the likely cause.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2024

Michael and David, who worked at the Haig Colliery in Whitehaven, Cumbria, know many miners who were struck down by black lung.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2024

In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.

From Salon • Sep. 22, 2023

Their names all ended with Y. Her husband, Clarence Pastor, had black lung and sat on the front porch of their huge sagging house all day long, but he never smiled or waved at passersby.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls