US coalminers face a 50-year high in black lung disease as federal benefit appeals drag on
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US coal workers’ pneumoconiosis cases have hit a nearly 50-year high, according to data in the American Journal of Respiratory, as the Trump administration moves to boost coal. Retired miner Josh Armes, 74, of Grundy, Virginia, spent 38 years underground and now relies on an oxygen tank; since a coal operator appealed his federal black lung benefits in 2014, he has been stuck in appeals for 12 years.
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