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Adam Richins looked outside and saw a brownish hue spanning the horizon across Millard County. “It’s a dust bowl,” he said.
In 2023, the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration issued a proposed regulation to limit miners' silica dust exposure after decades of concern, but some advocates worry the proposed rule ...
Coal miners can breathe at least a small sigh of relief with the new federal rule that cuts their exposure to silica dust.
The Trump administration’s feckless business-first, workers-last approach is leaving the nation’s coal miners to die—and now their unions are taking him to court.
Coal miners head to court over Trump cuts to black lung screening staff Roughly two-thirds of the staff that provides free examinations for the deadly disease, which one study says affects 1 in 5 ...
Phelps Dodge has increased dust-control efforts after winds kicked up at least three dust-filled clouds from one of the mining company's tailings piles and deposited it on nearby Green Valley ...
Mine safety advocates credit the agency for proposing two monumental changes: making the silica dust exposure limit twice as strict and directly regulating silica dust for the first time.