Dust from open cast mining suffocates surrounding forests and inhibits trees' ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere ...

A new final rule was issued by the federal Department of Labor earlier this month that will require coal operators who ...

War has changed Ukraine's workforce, especially in heavy industry and mining. With men conscripted to fight the war against ...

Where an administrative law judge concluded that, because of the presence of pneumoconiosis and the causation of a man’s respiratory or pulmonary impairment, he was totally disabled, it erred. The ...

The incidence of so-called “black lung disease” has been roaring back due to mechanized coal extraction technology.

In Pakistan's suffocating coal mines, an innovative initiative is tackling the deadly tuberculosis by taking lifesaving care ...

Otherwise, readers had thoughts on myriad issues from Gov. Hochul signing the Climate Change Superfund Act to the passing of ...

Reiss send regular air quality reports to the county health department to address residents' dust and health concerns ... on an agreement to move the coal piles, based on the county's application ...

India is reviewing a decade-old $30 billion programme requiring coal-fired power plants to install equipment to cut sulphur ...

“TB is a bacterial disease, the dust doesn’t cause it,” says Dr Iram Batool. “But when your lungs have been weakened by breathing coal dust for years, it will of course increase the risk ...

“Significant amounts of dust, combined with the loss of power ... The Matla Power Station is one of Eskom’s 15 coal-fired power plants but it plays an important role in ensuring South Africa ...