Investigation: As Black Lung Cases Doubled In The Last Decade, The Coal Industry Fought New Health Protections

Investigation: As Black Lung Cases Doubled In The Last Decade, The Coal Industry Fought New Health Protections: In the last ten years, as cases of black lung among American coal miners doubled — hitting “epidemic” scale — the coal industry and anti-regulatory politicians have fought to prevent federal agencies from creating new standards that would improve miner safety. That’s according to an investigation from National Public Radio, The Center for Public Integrity, [...]/p