Black Lung Disease

If America Is Richer, Why Are Its Families So Much Less Secure?

2004-10-10 00:00:00

By most conventional measures, Paul Fredo is an American success story. The son of a coal miner, he made almost $200,000 in the last year, enough to place him in the top 2% of wage earners. As a financial manager for the U.S. unit of Alstom, the French...

Despite 'urgency,' Obama black lung rule remains stalled

2013-05-12 00:00:00

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Top researchers are warning of an increased "sense of urgency" to combat black lung, but the Obama administration is saying little about any progress finalizing a rule it proposed more than 2 1/2 years ago to reduce exposure to the...

Rockefeller, again, proposes new mine safety act

2013-04-25 11:54:03

For the fourth time since an explosion rumbled through a Raleigh County coal mine and snuffed out 29 lives, Sen. Jay Rockefeller is trying to make the industry a safer place in which to labor. Named after his onetime colleague, the senator titled it...

Sonya Reinhart, child actress

2012-07-26 13:50:29

Sonya Reinhart, a longtime supervisor in the Social Security Administration's Office of Disability Operations who had been a child actress, died July 18 of a massive coronary at Sinai Hospital. The Owings Mills resident was 82. The daughter of a...

Analysis Health care arguments: Can any portion survive?

2012-03-28 11:57:00

WASHINGTON (AP)— The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it could throw out other key parts of President Barack Obama's health care law if it first finds the individual insurance requirement unconstitutional. On the third and last day of...

Court appears split by ideology over health care

2012-03-28 19:35:00

Concluding three days of fervent, public disagreement, a Supreme Court seemingly split over ideology will now wrestle in private about whether to strike down key parts or even all of President Barack Obama’s historic health care law. The justices&...

It's A Gray Area: Could clean water come from coal?

2011-03-05 15:27:52

This column a few years ago discussed nuclear power and how our country was underutilizing it in generating electricity. A man who works for a company called ConvertCoal, Inc., or CCI, recently contacted me because of that article. The company, founded...

Disaster at No. 5 Mine

2002-09-22 00:00:00

Two thousand feet below the rolling, wind-scrubbed hills, in a remote section of North America's deepest coal mine, the walls began to creak and pop. In a dark corridor about 100 feet away, two miners watched as long steel bolts anchored into the rock...

Safety is casualty as firms chase profits in coal country

2002-09-24 00:00:00

Even as many underground coal mines slowly improve their safety records, America's Appalachian coal cradle is plagued by rising injury rates and growing numbers of safety violations linked to company negligence, federal records show. Eastern Kentucky and...

Text of Rev. Jesse Jackson's speech

2004-07-28 00:00:00

The following is a transcript of a speech by the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr. at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday, July 28, 2004: Tonight the pendulum swings from pain to possibilities. From hurt to hope. Darkness to light. The line of...

Margaret's Museum

1997-03-14 00:00:00

Friday March 14, 1997 ��"Margaret's Museum" is one of those gratifying, intimate films in which all elements seem to mesh perfectly. A love story set against a deepening drama of social protest, it has a distinctive psychological twist to which its...

"As we have found out in the United States and different parts of the globe, the miner has one of the most dangerous jobs in the world," says Gardere.

2011-05-04 00:00:00