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Miners and advocates are pleading with the Mine Safety and Health Administration to ensure a proposed rule to cut the current limit for silica dust exposure has strict enforcement mechanisms.

A U.S. agency has finally adopted new regulations to prevent premature deaths among minors who get pneumoconiosis by inhaling poisonous dust when digging through rocks.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A half-century ago, the nations top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.

A half-century ago, top U.S. health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The inaction since has

This submission focuses on teenage pregnancy and child marriage as barriers to the rights to health and education, rights abuses in tobacco farming and diamond mining, the right to free and compulsory education, and the protection of education from attack.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- A half-century ago, the nation`s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules

A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust.

A half-century ago, the nations top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The inaction since has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands from \

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A half-century ago, the nation’s top health experts urged the federal agency in charge of mine safety to adopt strict rules protecting miners from poisonous rock dust. The inaction since — fueled by denials and lobbying from coal and other industries — has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of […]

Jerry Coleman can only take half a breath. His lungs are irrevocably scarred after a nearly four-decade mining career.