WASHINGTON (WJHL) — The U.S. Department of Labor has finalized a new rule designed to protect black lung benefits. The department says the new rule will ease the burden coal company bankruptcies have ...
Kentucky Republican Rep. Hal Rogers has moved to preserve an element of the Affordable Care Act that makes it easier for coal miners to obtain black lung benefits. Though Republicans in Congress have ...
An organization advocating for disabled coal miners with black lung disease is asking local government officials in Luzerne, Lackawanna, Schuylkill and other coal mining counties to show support for ...
A coal miner’s son won his bid to overturn an administrative law judge’s decision that blocked him from receiving black lung ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – Proposed changes to U.S. Department of Labor rules would make it easier for coal miners and their families to obtain black lung benefits, while a West Virginia congressman ...
The federal Black Lung Program was enacted in 1969, just prior to the death of my grandfather, a Kentucky coal miner, from the disease. Black lung, also known as “Coal Workers’ Pneumoconiosis,” is an ...
Jul. 21—Democrats Joe Manchin, Tim Kaine and Mark Warner have reintroduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that seeks to ease the burden on surviving family members of coal miners who have passed away due ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON (WJHL) — The U.S. Department of Labor has finalized a new rule designed to protect black lung benefits. The department ...
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