A coal miner’s daughter takes on DOGE to protect miners’ health

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About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died. Nationally, a 2023 NIOSH study found that coal miners are twice as likely to die of lung diseases than non-miners.

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