Black Lung Disease Is Killing Thousands of Coal Miners
May 29, 2019Regulators and coal mining companies failed to prevent the rise of advanced black lung disease.
An investigation identified 2,000 cases of black lung disease, the biggest cluster of the disease ever reported, according to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). Conducted by NPR and the PBS program Frontline, the study revealed the extent of a grave epidemic...