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News Articles: coal mining

A NIOSH Black Lung surveillance van at the fire station in Wharton, W.Va.

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  • Health

Coal miners' health care hit hard in job cuts to CDC

The CDC unit that dramatically reduced Black Lung Disease among coal miners has been fired in Trump's sweeping overhaul of health agencies. Mining communities must now grapple with its disappearance.

April 09, 2025
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By:
  • Yuki Noguchi
Evacuees from the city of Pokrovsk arrive at the train station in Pavlohrad, Ukraine, on Oct. 15. They are fleeing to cities in western Ukraine or other points in Europe. Pokrovsk, a coal mining center in eastern Ukraine, is under frequent Russian artillery barrages and aerial attacks.

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  • World

Ukrainians face another harsh winter as Russia attacks coal country

Many Ukrainians continue to leave their coal mining towns, with the front line of the war with Russia nearby.

December 07, 2024
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By:
  • Michael Robinson Chávez
A giant truck hauls coal at a mine in the Powder River Basin in Wyoming

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  • Energy

Biden ending new leases in America's top coal region

Citing climate change, federal land managers are moving to end new leasing for coal in the country's top producing region.

May 16, 2024
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
"There's a lot of memories here, some good, some bad," said Danny Smith, reflecting on his years working at the now-defunct Solid Energy mine in Pike County, Ky. Smith, 51, suffers from an advanced and incurable stage of black lung disease.

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  • Health

As coal miners suffer and die from severe black lung, a proposed fix may fall short

For decades, miners have called for limits on highly toxic silica dust, which they're exposed to while mining. An investigation shows its impact and the weakness of proposed rules to protect them.

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Howard Berkes,
  • Justin Hicks,
  • and 1 more
A boy works in a coal mine north of Kabul. Afghanistan's state-run coal industry is going strong in an otherwise shattered economy. Many underage workers are the ones who are extracting the coal.

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  • World

In Afghanistan, coal mining relies on the labor of children

Since the return of the Taliban, Afghanistan's coal exports have increased — and so has child labor. At a coal mine in Baghlan province, boys earn between $3 and $8 for a day's work.

December 31, 2022
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By:
  • Arezou Rezvani,
  • Fazelminallah Qazizai,
  • and 1 more
An employee at a coal mine in eastern Ukraine travels deep into the mine.

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  • World

In eastern Ukraine's coal fields, Russia's invasion sparks hopes of a comeback

Ukraine's coal industry was in decline. Now miners find themselves in the middle of a war with Russia — and global demand for coal is rising.

July 06, 2022
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By:
  • Nathan Rott,
  • Hanna Palamarenko,
  • and 1 more
Kemerovo Governor Sergei Tsivilyov (center) speaks to the media in the Listvyazhnaya mine building, near Belovo, in the Kemerovo region of southwestern Siberia, Russia, Friday. A devastating explosion in the Siberian coal mine Thursday left dozens of miners and rescuers dead.

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  • World

Rescuers find a survivor after a Siberian coal mine exploded but many are feared dead

Russian authorities released the names of 51 people presumed dead after a devastating methane explosion in a coal mine in Siberia, believed to be the country's deadliest mining incident since 2010.

November 26, 2021
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By:
  • The Associated Press
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a news conference at the U.N. Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, on Tuesday.

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  • World

The U.K. considers its 1st new coal mine in decades even as it calls to phase out coal

A town in northern England wants to open a coking coal mine to create jobs. But while hosting the U.N. climate summit, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is urging countries to slash greenhouse gases.

November 04, 2021
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By:
  • Frank Langfitt

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