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Dave Jamieson

'Playing Politics With People's Lives'

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 08.18.2012 | Politics
Read More: Congress, Jay Rockefeller, Miners, West Virginia, Black Lung Disease, Mine Safety, Workplace Safety, Coal, Coal Lobby, Dirty Coal, Msha, Video, Mining, Denny Rehberg, Kentucky, Mine Safety and Health Administration, Coal Mining, Black Lung, National Mining Association, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Someday, a device known as the personal dust monitor could save coal miners a lot of misery. The "PDM," as it's known in mining circ...

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Rates Of This Disease Much Higher Than Previously Thought: What Is It?

The Huffington Post | Jessica Cumberbatch Anderson | Posted 06.22.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: American Lung Association, Lung Health Tips, Sarcoidosis, Bernie Mac, Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, Tisha Campbell-Martin, Chronic Inflammation, Black Lung Disease, Inflammation, Bernie Mac Death, Inflammatory Disease, Black Voices News

While it isn't nearly as recognizable as its cancerous kin, the lung disease sarcoidosis has become increasingly prevalent in recent years, a new stud...

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The World's Deadliest Profession: Coal Miners Pay for China's Economic Miracle

Richard Schiffman | Posted 03.04.2012 | World
Read More: Energy, Industrialization, Mining Accident, Black Lung Disease, Film, Coal Mining, Coal, Safety Regulations, China, World News
Richard Schiffman

Into the Light is a must see for anyone who wants to find out what is going on below the dazzling, high-tech surface of modern China.

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Dave Jamieson

GOP Gives Christmas Gift To Big Coal, Endangers Miners

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics
Read More: Coal Miners, Massey Energy, Video, Miners Black Lung, Miners, Budget, Government Shutdown, Mining, Gop, Black Lung Disease, Democrats, Coal, Coal Mining, Black Lung, Upper Big Branch Mine, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- As House Republicans and Democrats patted one another on the back over their new spending agreement Friday, advocates for coal miners we...

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Black Lung Disease On The Rise Again

Posted 07.23.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Miners Black Lung Disease, Miners Black Lung, Coal Miners Black Lung, Coal Mine Black Lung, Miners Lung Disease, Black Lung Disease, Healthy Living Health News, Black Lung, Healthy Living News

Black lung disease, long a killer of coal miners, is on the rise again after retreating in the 30 years since Congress passed tougher mine safety ...

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Persistent Black Lung, Old Scourge Of Coal, Found In Autopsies Of Most Massey Miners

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 07.19.2011 | Green
Read More: West Virginia Mine Disaster, West Virginia Black Lung, West Virgina Disaster, Coal Mine Black Lung, Massey Black Lunch, Massey Miners, Massey Mine, Black Lung Disease, Black Lung, Coal, Massey Mine Disaster, Green News
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Dave Jamieson

Rand Paul: Mine Safety Regs Too Costly

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 06.07.2011 | Politics
Read More: Msha, Department of Labor, Black Lung Disease, Labor, Rand Paul, Coal, Coal Mining, Upper Big Branch Mine, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- With American miners still succumbing to black lung disease, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has proposed a plan to red...

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Weekly Pulse: WV Mine Had Over 1300 Health and Safety Violations

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Massey Energy, Peter Rothberg, Patients United Now, Washington Monthly, Black Lung Disease, The Nation, Mine Safety Laws, Alternet, Coal Miners, Washington Independent, Steve Benen, Charles Wilson, Nick Baumann, Americans for Prosperity, Mother Jones, Jeff Biggers, Sen. Patti Murray, US Mine Safety and Health Administration, Aaron Weiner, Politics News
The Media Consortium

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger Massey Energy's Disregard for SafetyA massive explosion ripped through the Big Branch coal mine in Wes...

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