The Deadly Disease That Really Scares Coal Miners
It’s black lung. And they can’t get their legislators to do anything about it.

By LEIGH GIANGRECO
08/08/2020

CHARLESTON, W.Va.—On a dreary day in early spring, several dozen men, mostly in their mid to late 60s, dressed in jeans and camouflage-colored UMWA t-shirts, passed by a heroic statue of a helmeted coal miner just outside the state capitol building. Click here to read more.

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