About a fifth of the coal miners in Central Appalachia have black lung. And from 1970 to 2016, more than 75,000 died. Nationally, a 2023 NIOSH study found that coal miners are twice as likely to die ...

I also miss those elder generations, now sometimes dismissed as outdated. To coal—now condemned as a pollutant—I say, thank ...

I also miss those elder generations, now sometimes dismissed as outdated. To coal—now condemned as a pollutant—I say, thank you. You carried us far.