Judge Irene Berger granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday afternoon that would temporarily reinstate employees at the ...

A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory ...

About two-thirds of the staff that provides free examinations for the deadly disease, which one study says affects 1 in 5 ...

The Trump administration's cuts to NIOSH have gutted crucial programs affecting millions of workers across the U.S.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reinstated nearly 200 workers who screen coal miners for black lung, an incurable progressive disease caused by long-term exposure to coal dust ...

A judge ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs.

HHS has reversed the firings of more than 100 employees with the federal institute that protects coal miners from black lung, ...

West Virginia coal miners ask federal judge to protect program that screens for black lung disease and helps uphold federal occupational health protections.

Jill RothenbergUniversity of New Mexico Steve Segura, a third-generation coal miner and native of Raton, N.M., remembers a conversation with his father after he graduated… Login to continue reading Lo ...

For decades it offered free screenings for black lung ... "He's looking at the coal-fired power plants, but he's also doing away with NIOSH that helps the safety of the coal miners," Tennant ...