Rules that would reduce worker exposures to two well-known lung hazards, beryllium and silica, are stuck in the regulatory pipeline.

Labor Department official announces changes to a program that rewards supposedly safer-than-average workplaces

Despite decades-old law, cheating, legal loopholes expose miners to deadly dust.

For more than a quarter-century, government efforts to end black lung have hit brick walls

Legislative maneuver bars regulators from implementing or enforcing a proposal to reduce miners' exposure to coal dust

Government experts are considering ways to step up coal mine dust enforcement after a CPI-NPR investigation.

House Republicans have inserted language in a budget bill that would kill a proposed rule to protect coal miners from deadly dust.

Kentucky's deletion of all violations in worker death case criticized by victim's family, feds.

Research supports proposal to reduce coal miners’ exposure to dust that causes deadly disease, a GAO report found.

Companies exempt from some inspections under a special OSHA program should face tighter scrutiny, a report finds, echoing a Center series.