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  • Speaker says mountaintop removal destroys family history, culture (18 Mar 2010 15:56)

    ... air and the dust from the coal, which causes the deadly disease known as black lung disease. People develop this disease depending on how long they have been around the ...

  • All the Dems' payoffs (15 Mar 2010 17:14)

    ... Murphy, Allyson Schwartz and Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania would be asked to strip the "Black Lung Buy-Off" expanding the number of families eligible to receive black lung benefits. Perhaps some ...

  • More on VA Health Care (18 Mar 2010 23:17)

    ... net worth, including Social Security, retirement pay, unemployment insurance, interest and dividends, workers compensation, black lung benefits and any other income. Also considered are assets such as the market value ...

  • Social Security Milestones (15 Mar 2010 02:11)

    ... Monthly cash benefits are provided to coal miners who became totally disabled because of black lung diseases and for their dependents and survivors. Nixon signs into law P.L. 92-336, which ...

  • What's Happening ' March 15, 2010 (15 Mar 2010 02:50)

    ... more information at 304-731-0262. Benefits counseling for coal miner and widow applicants for Federal Black Lung, 10 a.m. to noon, UMWA District 17, New Raleigh Road, Beckley. Sponsored by New ...

  • China: Confession of a 'Second Generation Migrant Worker' (18 Mar 2010 22:17)

    ... and voluntarily opening their breast through a surgical operation to prove that theyve developed pneumoconiosis from their workplace. How about going back to the countryside and be a farmer? ...

  • CSX workers claim asbestos exposure caused cancer (16 Mar 2010 21:29)

    ... products transported by CSX. Because of their exposure to the materials, the plaintiffs developed pneumoconiosis, asbestosis and other health condition that have caused them to experience a diminished quality ...

  • Chamber of Commerce (Again) Hopes to Scale Back Proposed Black Lung Benefits (12 Mar 2010 21:44)

    ... together their sweeping health reform proposal, the nine-term Byrd attached language that would expand black lung benefits for coal miners and their families. It hasn't been well received by the ...

  • Jeff Biggers: Clean-Coal Myth Buster (13 Mar 2010 09:27)

    ... I come from coal-mining people. My grandfather was a coal miner. He suffered from black lung disease. Three people die every day from black lung disease. Thats one of the ...

  • Report Outlines Impact of EPA Attack on Coal (11 Mar 2010 11:58)

    ... last year could greatly expand the number of families eligible to receive benefits from black lung claims. The Affordable Health Care Choices Act includes amendments from Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., ...

  • Obama and Senate clash over pet projects in health bill (13 Mar 2010 17:50)

    ... $100 million to build a hospital. About 800,000 , and some coal miners with black lung disease or their widows would get help, and there are prizes for , the ...

  • Coal dependency damaging state's health (11 Mar 2010 13:31)

    ... of the numbers: ■ Extraction: Ten percent of Eastern Kentucky deep miners suffer from black lung disease. As for surface mining, mountaintop removal is dumping selenium and manganese into the ...

  • Obama's bid to remove senators' projects from health care bill runs into political reality (13 Mar 2010 09:34)

    ... certain Medicare benefits. Asbestos-disease victims in tiny Libby, Mont., and some coal miners with black lung disease or their widows would get help, and there are prizes for Louisiana, the ...

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