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Research from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health released this week has confirmed what many in the Appalachian coalfields knew to be true: black lung rates are higher than they have been in 50 years. www.npr.org/2026/08/05/n...

Black lung rates in Appalachia are high as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sickRates are now the highest they've been in nearly 50 years among veteran coal miners. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.www.npr.org