Federal regulation capping toxic airborne silica has been decades in the making. The delay has cost miners dearly. By Chris Hamby Chris Hamby first reported on efforts to protect miners amid a ...
The Biden administration agreed Tuesday to limit workers' exposure to toxic silica dust, a common byproduct in U.S. mining ...
Stricter standards from the Mine Safety and Health Administration included monitoring dust exposure and providing health ...
Years of work by labor and health advocates is coming to a head this week as the federal Mine Safety and Health ...
Addressing a problem first identified 50 years ago, federal regulators say stricter new rules to limit miners' exposure to ...
Two loons swim with their chick on Clear Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in 2021. (Photo by Max ...
Tougher federal limits on miners’ exposure to toxic silica dust are creating a slew of compliance challenges for mine ...
Silica dust is a known cause of black lung disease among coal miners. The new federal rule seeks to limit their exposure.
The final rule lowers the permissible exposure limit of respirable crystalline silica to 50 micrograms per cubic meter of air ...
Coal miners can breathe at least a small sigh of relief with the new federal rule that cuts their exposure to silica dust.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal miners will be better protected from poisonous silica dust that has contributed to the premature deaths of thousands of mine workers from a respiratory ailment commonly ...