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Federal rule to protect miners from black lung disease faces uncertain future
20 Jan 2025 11:22 GMT
… a risk to develop into black lung disease — an incurable scourge that …
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DOL aims to keep mine operators responsible for black lung benefits
15 Jan 2025 16:30 GMT
… Jan. 13.
The Black Lung Benefits Program is intended … have been disabled by black lung – a deadly condition … for paying black lung benefits, the taxpayer-supported Black Lung Disability Trust … benefit payments under the Black Lung Benefits Act, as Congress …
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New map hints at scale of black lung crisis
07 Jan 2025 16:10 GMT
… the black lung crisis.
What’s the Black Lung Program?
Congress created the Black Lung Program … , with some miners contracting complicated black lung disease as young as their … your congressional district are receiving black lung benefits. This is a valuable …
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New federal rule aims to prevent coal operators from shifting black lung liabilities to taxpayers
30 Dec 2024 11:25 GMT
… cover all of their black lung benefit liabilities.
The rule … in the future receive black lung benefits, which are supposed … dangerous silica dust that causes black lung disease.
“This is … the responsibility to the federal Black Lung Disability Trust Fund.
“ …
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Proposed Arch-Consol merger must secure black lung benefits for miners
28 Dec 2024 19:54 GMT
… their obligations to employees with black lung through bankruptcy. Already, some … painstaking efforts to shirk both black lung and environmental reclamation obligations.
… evaluate whether the companies’ black lung liabilities are adequately secured. …
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New rule cracks down on companies' abandonment of black lung liabilities
26 Dec 2024 08:35 GMT
… advocates concerned about how future black lung liabilities will be covered.
… stipends," Muckian-Bates outlined.
Black lung disability payments to miners have … stipends," Muckian-Bates outlined.
Black lung disability payments to miners have …
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New labor rule will prevent coal operators from putting black lung liabilities on taxpayers’ backs
19 Dec 2024 12:53 GMT
… cover all of their black lung benefit liabilities.
The rule … in the future receive black lung benefits, which are supposed … dangerous silica dust that causes black lung disease.
“This is … the responsibility to the federal Black Lung Disability Trust Fund.
“ …
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Advocates For Mine Workers Commend Black Lung Rule
16 Dec 2024 21:43 GMT
… For Mine Workers Commend Black Lung Rule
Briana Heaney
Published December … fibrotic tissue from complicated black lung disease are displayed in … for those diagnosed with Black Lung were shifted to … security bonds for their black lung obligations.
The rule will …
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U.S. Department of Labor protects black lung fund as new administration approaches
13 Dec 2024 09:58 GMT
… pay for their former workers’ black lung disease treatments and monthly benefits … coal miners’ black lung disability benefits from the taxpayer-backed Black Lung Disability Trust … Community Action Programs (NOWCAP) Black Lung Clinic, which helps miners in …
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US Department of Labor announces final rule adopting standards for coal mine operators’ self-insurance under Black Lung Benefits Act
12 Dec 2024 01:10 GMT
… the regulations under the Black Lung Benefits Act related to … adequate security for their Black Lung benefit liabilities. It also … will protect the Black Lung Disability Trust Fund against … benefit payments under the Black Lung Benefits Act, as Congress …