Voting for Republicans sure pays off for the Appalachian working class! A measure signed into law in Kentucky this past week would prevent federally-certified radiologists from judging X-rays in state.
Coal companies are openly cheating the system that monitor for coal dust that leads to black lung, misleading Mine Safety and Health Administration monitoring programs. There are so few good.
The Center for Public Integrity is running a really great series about how coal miners get black lung from decades in the mines and then face a wall of denial.
Black lung is returning with force to the miners of Appalachia. Coal companies have fought against meaningful reforms (or even recognizing it exists) for over a century, and longer if.
