Their visit follows reporting showing black lung rates in the region are as high as they were in the 1970s.

The disease has long been a risk of coal mining, an industry the Trump administration is trying to reinvigorate.

Report authored by: Meredith Perkins, Indiana University O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Rebecca Shelton, Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center, and Dana Kuhnline, ReImagine Appalachia ...

Sep 25, 2026, at 12:00 pm ET via Zoom - Join the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center and ReImagine Appalachia for a discussion of a new report tracking major milestones regarding mine safety and health f...

Central Appalachia has been a key site of the extractive economy for two centuries. In recent decades, landscapes reshaped and abandoned by the coal industry have been repurposed for prisons and, now,...

Sep 25, 2026, at 12:00 pm ET via Zoom - Join the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center and ReImagine Appalachia for a discussion of a new report tracking major milestones regarding mine safety and health f...

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As we approach the one-year anniversary of the launch of Worthy Ground, I have found myself in a space of grief. Just a little over four years ago, my hometown and the counties around us were destroye...

FRANKFORT, Ky. — On August 26, 2026, the Kentucky Public Service Commission issued an order opening an investigation into the affordability of electric and

Black lung rates among Appalachian coal miners are at a 50-year high, with miners getting sicker younger.

Black lung rates among Appalachian coal miners are at a 50-year high, with miners getting sicker younger.

A Kentucky group representing miners with black lung is urging U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers to support a bill significantly boosting the federal disability benefits these miners receive.

The Trump administration has doubled down on its delay of rulemaking that under the Biden administration had been designed to protect miners from black lung – days after fresh evidence surfaced that a...

Black Lung reaches nearly 50-year high NIOSH findings show why the silica rule can’t wait A new NIOSH study shows that black lung has reached its highest recorded rates in Central Appalachia in nearly...

Water shutoffs are a hidden public health crisis. But here's how journalists can shine more light on this issue in their coverage area.

My husband Doug fought hard against black lung for more than 15 years before passing away. After years in the mines, he was diagnosed with black lung after a company

Since 2009, coal miners and their allies have pushed the federal government to implement a silica dust standard to prevent exposure to the silica dust implicated in the causation of severe forms of co...

Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

Below is our most recent issue of the Black Lung Bulletin, a collaborative publication that incorporates stories and updates from miners and families affected by black lung and experts in the field. T...

Miners with black lung face one challenge after another.

Miners with black lung face one challenge after another.

The bipartisan consensus seen among local leaders in Kentucky to boost black lung disability benefits hasn’t materialized in Congress.

Sinkholes, washed-out drains, flooded homes, and other damage were reported through the night and into Monday morning.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a bill this week that would increase black lung disability payments for coal miners.

Miners debilitated by the disease receive a small cash benefit and health insurance to cover associated costs, but the monthly payments haven't kept up with inflation.

Tuesday marks 10 years since floodwaters devastated West Virginia, leaving 23 dead and displacing more than 2,000 people. A decade later, new reports present mounting evidence that West Virginia is mo...

Press Release - A priority of the Appalachian Flood Resilience Coalition (AFRC) passed the U.S. House [358-32] as part of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, as vital Community Development Block Gr...

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencil...

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Analysis of 114 Kentucky utilities shows most charge reconnection or late fees, and nearly two-thirds of shutoffs were for $50 or less.

Drinking water utilities in Kentucky disconnected ratepayers who owed less than $50 among other “unreasonably punitive” practices by utilities.

A federal agency responsible for hearing mine safety disputes has been thrown into uncertainty after President Donald Trump fired one of its commissioners and layoffs followed at the agency’s Pittsbur...

As coal production in Southwest Virginia wins White House support, miner protections stall under the Trump Administration.