Encore: The Rise of Black Lung, Inside Appalachia - West Virginia Public Broadcasting : vimarsana.com

Encore: The Rise of Black Lung, Inside Appalachia - West Virginia Public Broadcasting

This week on Inside Appalachia, black lung disease is back. In fact, it never went away. Now, younger and younger miners are living with a particularly nasty form of black lung disease. Regulators and the coal industry have known about the problem for decades — but they’ve been slow to respond. One reporter asks, “What would happen if thousands of workers in any other industry got sick and died just because of where they worked?”

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