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Respirable coal and silica dust has long been recognised as causing lung diseases such as silicosis and Coal Worker’s Pneumoconiosis (CWP). These lung diseases and other lung diseases caused from mining are now placed under an umbrella term Mine Dust Lung Disease (MDLD). The re-emergence of MDLD (particularly CWP) in Australia has necessitated extensive research into the field of preventing MDLD. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has allowed the industry to model dust flow in underground coal...

The number of coal workers with black lung is increasing.

Buried. i grew up in birmingham, alabama. i know and understand language of that kind. but ill tell you, it wouldnt have an appeal if there werent something deeper going on. i think there are two things going on. some people have been left out. you cannot tell the unemployed steelworker in pennsylvania or the unemployed coal worker in west virginia that actually your life has been made better by all of this globalization and especially if elites say, just listen, it is better for you. see all of...

Have an appeal if there werent something deeper going on. and i think there are two things going on. some people have been left out. you cannot tell the unemployed steel worker in pennsylvania or the unemployed coal worker in west virginia that actually your life has been made better by all of this globalization, and especially, if elites say, well, just listen. it is better for you. see all of those cheap goods you can buy at walmart. the conversation is not working. and so some people really d...

Campaign trail and was the coal worker and hopefully its something that stuck out to him, something that he remembers or something that hes familiar with, i would like to opportunity to tell him thank you, you know, i dont -- im not necessarily a voice for this industry but i would like to be able to say thank you from the bottom of my heart as i reached out to a lot of people this weekend, i had a lot of people to say they had opportunity to thank him for industry and thank you them for people ...

So globally, manufacturing employment is going down, and we are, just because its of the nature of a global economy getting a smaller share of the shrinking number. trump wants to go back to the past. >> right. >> you cant re-invent the past. we cant go back to where we were in 1956. the jobs just arent there. >> mining is a perfect example. right? we dont need more coal and if he immediated more coal like in gary, indiana, with the steel, we would extract it with machines more than people. less...

Politics, the discussion were having now, about jobs versus environmentalism. you think of the 56-year-old coal worker, coal miner in west virginia who heard hillary clinton last year basically say, these coal jobs are going away. theyre not coming back. is that person going to transition over the next five or ten years into a green energy job? or is that person looking at the end of his career, five years before he was ready. is he looking at his son saying, hell go into the mines and have an i...

He invited ezekiel emanuel to the white house yesterday. get one of the architects of obamacare in sit there in front of paul ryan and tom price. ainsley: as long as its not jonathan gruber. steve: ezekiel emanuel be with us is he partisan but pragmatic. it looks like and this is his third visit to the white house. it looks like he is helping et republicans take apart the affordable care act and replace it with something that works. ainsley: something else he touched on yesterday that i thought ...

Memorize all 4,000 linites. lets talk about after school programs, theyre supposed to help kids who dont get fed at home get fed so they get better in school. guess what? theres no demonstrable evidence theyre actually doing that. that theyre helping kids do better in school. when we took your money from you, the way we justified it was these programs are going to help these kids do better in school and get better jobs. >> to be clear this administration is saying that no after school programs a...

May be difficult to discern at home or listening to your radio, that was the senate majority leaders idea of a joke. he was poking fun at the president. this is like -- this is the third time in the past week that he has -- hes done something like this at one of these events. is this a sign, jennifer, congress and the white house are, perhaps, not getting along? >> i dont think this in particular is a sign. i think this is a plea, once more, for the president to stop tweeting. i do think, actual...