Isn’t it amazing that Appalachian Black Lung rates are the highest in nearly 50 years as coal miners protections stall while the Black Lung Trust Fund owes $3 billion to the US Treasury because of company bankruptcies and being under insured; all of this while the administration in June ...

Sen. Bob Casey met with members of the United Mine Workers of America in Uniontown on Tuesday to discuss a bill to improve benefits for coal miners suffering from black lung. “We’ve made some progress over the years with legislation, but we still have some major challenges when it comes to ...