Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20170823:11:58:00
Engineering and medicine to cease all actives on a study to determine whether people living in the coal mining sites are more prone to certain diseases like cancer. >> the evidence we have seen so far in over two dozen articles and studies have shown higher cancer rates, higher rates of heart and cardiovascular disease. >>. >> reporter: the agency said it put a hold on this study because of this changing budget situation. the study focussed on four states, west virginia, virginia, kentucky and tennessee where mountain top coal mining is most pref dent. in stae the waste from the process is dum...