"… compensate him for the disease that steals his breath — the old bane of miners known as black lung. In mid-century, when Marcum worked, dust filled the …"

"… Marcum worked, dust filled the mines, largely uncontrolled. Almost half of miners who worked at least 25 years contracted the disease. Amid strikes through …"

"… before we learned more about it,” Rasmussen, now 84 and still diagnosing miners, said in a recent interview at his office in Beckley, W.Va. “I was dead …"

"… nbsp;resurgence represents a failure to deliver on a 40-year-old pledge to miners in which few are blameless, an investigation by the Center for Public Int …"