black lung
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“Basic black lung diagnoses had doubled in a decade. The advanced disease, PMF, had quadrupled since the 1980s.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
"They ain't worried about the coal miners. We're just a number to them," added Hairston, who is a black lung patient himself.
From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026
The black lung screening program for coal miners was briefly killed off before an outcry led to a temporary reinstatement.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025
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
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
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