Research shows black lung rates rising among miners with as few as 15 years underground, a trend unseen in nearly 40 years.

The United Mine Workers of America made an “urgent demand” of the federal government on Thursday for the “immediate, uncompromised” enforcement of previously approved policies and rules that would protect coal miners from incurable black lung disease. The call from the UMWA comes after new research this month shows that black lung rates have increased to an almost 50-year high after years of…

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